What Animates a House

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.8.2 (mid-April, 56 B.C., tr. E.O. Winstedt):

Since Tyrannio has arranged my books, the house seems to have acquired a soul.

postea vero quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit, mens addita videtur meis aedibus.

See Andrew R. Dyck, “Mens Addita. Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.8.2,” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 146 (2003) 425.

Photographs of a friend's house: