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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. -- Æschylus
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. -- Seneca
Ditto! But after 30 years of public servitude as a magister, I'm free at last and glad to be. -- Senex |
In my study, I keep the family accounts (tabulae) and the portraits of our ancestors (imagines) along with a copy of my will (testamentum). There is a bolted-down strongbox (arca) to store various valuables and a table to hold writing supplies.
Some of the preceding information comes from A History of Private Life (Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium), edited by Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby and published in 1996 by The Belknap Press of Harvard Press (Cambridge).