1Commonplace Book, 1759–1772 (Madison Papers)
...as well as others he found no occasion to cite. The “Account Book” reveals “Jamie” Madison buying works by Virgil, Horace, Justinian, and Cornelius Nepos, and probably also reading others by Caesar, Tacitus, Lucretius, Eutropius, and Phaedrus. With Robertson as his mentor, JM used selections from the writings of Plutarch, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato in his study of Greek. Abel Boyer’s