⁸⁶ The point is made with admirable clarity by Seneca, ‘Of course, however, the living voice and the intimacy of a common life will help you more than the written word. You must go to the scene of the action, first, because men put more faith in their eyes that in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns’ (Epistulae morales 6. 5; trans. Gummere).