Re: Classic, Normal, and Vulgar Lingo

At 5:39 pm -0500 20/1/00, Padraic Brown wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
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>>They had specially trained slaves and/or freedmen to read to them.
>
>Ah. So they had books on tape, in a manner of speaking.
Yep - in their car as well as in the house.  :-)

 As they were carried along (by lower-grade slaves, of course) on their
litters, they might well have a slave/ freedman trooting alongside reading
away to them.

Indeed, unlike us moderns, they didn't have to drive the vehicle - the
"engine" did that, and the steering too!  They could, if they wished, just
pull the curtains across to cut out the distractions around them and just
listen to the "tape".

Ray.

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