Studia Humanitatis – παιδεία – ΟYΤΩΣ AΤΑΛΑIΠΩΡΟΣ ΤΟIΣ ΠΟΛΛΟIΣ H ΖHΤΗΣΙΣ ΤHΣ AΛΗΘΕIΑΣ, ΚΑI EΠI ΤA EΤΟIΜΑ ΜAΛΛΟΝ ΤΡEΠΟΝΤΑΙ. «Così
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If some person who has been twice consul should hear this, he will forgive you, provided you add, "but you are wise, and this has no reference to you." But if you tell him the truth, that, in point of slavery, he does not necessarily differ from those who have been thrice sold, what but chastisement can you expect? "For how," he says, "am I a slave? My father was free, my mother free. Besides, I am a senator, too, and the friend of Caesar, and have been twice consul, and have myself many slaves." In the fir
"But what," he says, "has this to do with my being a slave? " Is it no part of slavery to act against your will, under compulsion, and lamenting? "Be it so. But who can compel me but the master of all, Caesar?" By your own confession, then, you have one master; and let not his being, as you say, master of all, give you any comfort; for then you are merely a slave in a large family. Thus the Nicopolitans, too, frequently cry out, "By the genius of Caesar we are free !"
Studia Humanitatis – παιδεία – ΟYΤΩΣ AΤΑΛΑIΠΩΡΟΣ ΤΟIΣ ΠΟΛΛΟIΣ H ΖHΤΗΣΙΣ ΤHΣ AΛΗΘΕIΑΣ, ΚΑI EΠI ΤA EΤΟIΜΑ ΜAΛΛΟΝ ΤΡEΠΟΝΤΑΙ. «Così