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At first I wondered how Aristotle, Seneca, Lucretius and other ancient writers managed

Julius Caesar was well known, among other things, for the fact that he could read to himself. Everybody else read out loud all the time because it was the only way to cope with the fact that not only was there no punctuation there were no spaces between the words. It must have been absolute bedlam in public libraries.

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