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50. Rome: A Slave Society

Empire

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Cicero's Librarian Slave

In your book, Mary, you have a wonderful section on Cicero's librarian slaves. He loses not one but two Greek librarians, both of whom I'm scared. They've even got names that one is Dionysseus and the other is Chrysopus. Are those not Greek names? Yeah. It's very hard to know whether a slave is an original name or not an original name. But there were legitimate, there was names where absolutely... Yes.

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