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such an anomaly that St. Augustine (Confessions 5, 3)
finds Ambrose’s habit a very remarkable thing: “But when
he was reading his eye glided over the pages and his heart
searched out the sense, but his voice and tongue were at
rest.” Visitors came to watch this prodigy, and Augustine
conjectures explanations:
‘Perchance he dreaded lest if the author he read
should deliver anything obscurely, some attentive or
perplexed hearer should desire him to expound it, or to
discuss some of the harder questions; so that his time
being thus spent, he could not turn over so many
volumes as he desired; although the preserving of his
voice (which a very little speaking would weaken) might
be the truer reason for his reading to himself. But with
what intent soever he did it, certainly in such a man it