奥古斯丁在其《忏悔录》中记载了一个引人注目的观察。他描述了米兰大主教安布罗修斯的阅读方式："读的时候，眼睛扫过文字，心想着意思，但声音和舌头都停止了。"1 这段记载成为了解古代阅读习惯的重要史料，学者们以此推断在古代世界中，无声阅读并非常见做法，当时的阅读主要以朗读形式进行。
对于这一历史现象的学术研究已有深入探讨。威廉·A·约翰逊在《美国古典学期刊》第121卷（2000年）发表了题为《走向古典古代阅读的社会学》的论文，系统分析了古代阅读史。1 阿尔贝托·曼古埃尔则在其1996年出版的《阅读史》一书中，专门用第二章讨论了"无声阅读者"的相关内容。1 这些研究共同揭示了阅读方式的演变过程及其在不同历史时期的特征。
Augustine's account of his mentor Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, provides a striking historical window into reading practices in the ancient world.1 In his Confessions (6.3.3), Augustine observed that Ambrose would read "in such a way that his eyes scanned the page and his heart sought out the meaning, but his voice and tongue remained silent."1 This detailed notation of silent reading suggests that such a practice was sufficiently unusual to warrant Augustine's commentary, implying that oral reading was the prevailing norm during that period.
Scholars have since examined this evidence as part of broader investigations into the history of reading in classical antiquity. William A. Johnson published a sociological analysis of ancient reading practices in the American Journal of Classical Philology, Volume 121 (2000), pages 593–627, contributing to academic understanding of how reading was performed in the ancient world.1 Alberto Manguel's 1996 work "A History of Reading" devoted its second chapter specifically to the phenomenon of "silent readers,"1 further establishing the historical significance of Augustine's observation. The first printed edition of Augustine's Confessions was published by Johann Mentelin before 1470,1 making Augustine's commentary on Ambrose's reading habits accessible to subsequent generations of readers and scholars.
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