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Galen is the only source for this practice. Most scholars in the relevant areas find his claim dubious.
by wl 6y ago
Galen is the only source for this practice. Most scholars in the relevant areas find his claim dubious.
- HeyLaughingBoy 6y agoConsidering how few people could read and how expensive books would have been, I would expect that those books would have been valuable cargo (as opposed to personal items) and not willingly released anyway.