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I have written to Octavius: I had not said anything to him about you by word of mouth; for I did not suppose that you carried on your business in that province, or look upon you in the light of general money-lender: but I have written, as in duty bound, with all seriousness. His librarii will make copies.
The absence of the dragon from the similitude is as well, don't you think? One feels that the librarii should be a sacred order, nearly allied to the monastic, refined by varying steps of initiation, and certainly celibates.
Every man of rank and education kept librarii, or book-writers, in his house; and many servi, or slaves, were trained to this service, so that they were a numerous class. Papyrus is a very durable substance, made of the innermost pellicles of the stalk, glued together transversely, with the glutinous water of the Nile.
Or, if ancora sublata be read, "when the anchor was already weighed." In either case it means "just as you were starting." Cicero was probably sending it, whichever it was, to Atticus to be copied by his librarii, and published.
In 1466 money was bequeathed by William Rodes, a chaplain, ad fabricam cujusdam librarii in ecclesiâ construendi, words which may refer to the screening off for books of a portion of this chapel; but in Leland's time books were apparently kept in the vestry, though it is not certain that the present vestry is meant. The books were in this chapel in 1817, but in 1859 they were at the Deanery.
Unhappy race! how sweetly does St. Austin say of them "Librarii nostri facti sunt, quemadmodum solent libros post dominos ferre."
"Mihi molestior lippitudo erat etiam quam ante fuerat." And again, "Lippitudinis meæ signum tibi sit librarii manus." But we may doubt whether any great men have lived so long with so little to tease them as to their health. And yet the amount of work he got through was great.
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