"One old patrician is said to have expressed his love for literature in a particularly inventive manner. Instead of buying 'books without number' like everyone else, he spent vast sums filling his house with learned slaves, each of whom he required to become in effect a living edition of a classic work. One servant might recite The Iliad or The Aeneid; another would chant the Odes of Pindar. Every standard author had a distinctive voice."

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