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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Symposium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it'	Mary Shelley	Plato	Symposium	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'S. reads ye Phaedrus of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Phaedrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'	Mary Shelley	Plato	Symposium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references.] 'S Hu...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Apology of Socrates	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S finishes Phaedrus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Phaedrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Plato and am now labouring in Aristotle's Ethics" . . ....	John Buchan	Plato	unknown	Print: Book, scholarly edition
	1850-1899	'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not speak it'.	George Gissing	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to discourage my hysterical pursuit of elusive definitions....	Vera Brittain	Plato	'Apologia' and 'Meno'	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour's command, to call to the feast only the poor, the ...	John Ruskin	Plato	Phaedrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book

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