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Sep 5, 2026
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
I learned it no Latin until my eighth year.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
At that time I had read under my father's tuition a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus and of Xenophon's Cyropedia and Memorials of Socrates, some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, part of Lucan and Isocrates ad Dominicum and ad Nicolium.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
I also read in 1813 the first six dialogues in the common arrangement of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theocritus inclusive, which last dialogue I ventured to think would have been better omitted as it was totally impossible I should understand it.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
But my father in all his teaching demanded of me not only the utmost that I could do, but much that I could by no possibility have done.
Gary GilbardNARRATOR
I learned no Latin until my eighth year.
Gary GilbardNARRATOR
At that time I had read under my father's tuition a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus and of Xenophon's Cyropedia and Memorials of Socrates, some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, part of Lucan and Isocrates' Ad Demonicum and Ad Nicolium.
Gary GilbardNARRATOR
I also read in 1813 the first six dialogues in the common arrangement of Plato.
Gary GilbardNARRATOR
From the Euthyphron to the Theocritus inclusive, which last dialogue I ventured to think would have been better omitted, as it was totally impossible I should understand it.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
I learned it no Latin until my eighth year.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
At that time I had read under my father's tuition a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus and of Xenophon's Cyropedia and Memorials of Socrates, some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, part of Lucan and Isocrates ad Dominicanum and ad Nicolium.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
I also read in 1813 the first six dialogues in the common arrangement of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theocritus inclusive, which last dialogue I ventured to think would have been better omitted as it was totally impossible I should understand it.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
But my father in all his teaching demanded of me not only the utmost that I could do, but much that I could by no possibility have done.
Gary GilbardNARRATOR
I learned no Latin until my eighth year.
Gary GilbardNARRATOR
At that time I had read under my father's tuition a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus and of Xenophon's Cyropedia and Memorials of Socrates.
Gary GilbardNARRATOR
Some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius Part of Lucan, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicolium.
Gary GilbardNARRATOR
I also read in 1813 the first six dialogues in the common arrangement of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theocritus inclusive, which last dialogue I ventured to think would have been better omitted, as it was totally impossible I should understand it.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
I learned no Latin until my eighth year.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
At that time I had read under my father's tuition a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus and of Xenophon's Cyropedia and Memorials of Socrates, some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, part of Lucan and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoleum.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
I also read in 1813 the first six dialogues in the common arrangement of Plato from the Euthyphron to the Theocritus, inclusive, which last dialogue I ventured to think would have been better omitted as it was totally impossible I should understand it.
Gary GilbertNARRATOR
But my father, in all his teaching, demanded of me not only the utmost that I could do, but much that I could by no possibility have done.