Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery by Hunt Peter;

Author:Hunt, Peter;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119421061
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2017-08-16T14:30:00+00:00

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Manumission and Ex-Slaves

Many who are not even free now tomorrow will be citizens from Sounion [a town in the mining district of Attica].

Anaxandrides (fourth-century Athenian comic playwright), fr. 4 in Kock 1880–1888

And there were people in the house who put out a foot to trip me up here and there. But still – God bless my master! – I struggled through. These are real victories: for being born free is as easy as saying, “Come here” . . . you will see that my iron ring [of a freedman] commands credit.

Petronius, Satyricon 57–58, trans. Heseltine 1987

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