was a contributing factor to the orality of their textuality. We might think that authors had to remind themselves to write for hearers, but orality was so intuitive that it probably was natural for authors to incorporate orality into textuality. Moving on to the Romans, as noted at the outset of this chapter, if Greek literature was the first generation of the literature of Western civilization, Latin literature was the second. In many respects, what has been said about the orality of Greek literature