Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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During Rome's republican period, which ended in the first century BCE, libraries were predominantly owned by wealthy individuals who tightly controlled access to their book collections. The first public library became available in Rome in 28 BCE and was soon followed by one commissioned by Emperor Augustus. As modern scholar Fabio Fernandes notes, however, these two traditions aren't as distinct as they seem. as both the emperor and the private library owners viewed their libraries as extensions of their personal patronage, just on vastly differing scales.

To give a brief overview of public access to libraries throughout Rome's republican period

To contend that early imperial leaders in Rome wielded too much influence over libraries

To assert that private and early public libraries in ancient Rome had an essential similarity

To call into question the notion that private Roman libraries disappeared during the first century BCE