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The world grew less humane as well as less sensible as it grew older, and came to think more of orthodoxy than of any other condition of the mind. The virtuous Romans appear to have been greater book-burners than the Greeks, both under the Republic and under the Empire. It was the Senate's function to condemn books to the flames, and the prætor's to see that it was done, generally in the Forum.
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