You can't expect Collier's readers to swallow that kind of bilge.
His translations are published with copious notes explaining allusions in the text and filling in what the poets would have expected their readers to know.
Since all the men go unnamed it is possible that Seneca expected all his readers to know who these men are.
To Jerry those sounds represented living creatures with their moods and emotions, but after all he couldn't expect his readers to understand.
It's a signal that you do not expect your readers to own shares or other forms of investments.
Does he really expect his readers in this age of falling barriers to take seriously a novel about rejection by an eating club?
You are under an obligation not to use any little piece of knowledge which it is too much to expect your readers to know.
He evidently finds them fascinating and blameless and expects his readers to do the same.
John did not expect that his readers "who had understanding" to have any difficulty identifying the beast, since they could simply calculate the meaning of this number.
By now he expects his readers to be aware that the preface is a key to the meaning of the book.