The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead…


Hadrian's Memoirs (ed. 1957)


The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite...

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite...

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite...

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite...