The cost of education in the Roman Empire

Cost of education in the Roman Empire, from Diocletian price edict.
Based on the prices in the edict we can see that instruction in rhetoric and literature was valued above the rest, the wages of a teacher in rhetoric were over 3 times that of a teacher in arithmetic.
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