Because people might start getting ideas...
"Quid autem interest quomodo sapiens ad otium veniat, utrum quia res publica illi deest an quia ipse rei publicae, si omnibus defutura res publica est?" (Seneca, de otio, 8.2)
"Quid autem interest quomodo sapiens ad otium veniat, utrum quia res publica illi deest an quia ipse rei publicae, si omnibus defutura res publica est?" (Seneca, de otio, 8.2)
in this case, otium is time characterized by private/social reading/writing as opposed to public involvement (sylvias explanation)
"But what does it matter how a wise man comes to otium, whether because the state is unavailable to the man or the man is unavailable to the state - if the state is going to fail everyone, no matter what? " ( trans sarah stroup from her book catullus, cicero, and a society of patrons,
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