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Episode CLXXV - The Murder of Pedanius Secundus

Emperors of Rome

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What Does It Mean to Treat Your Slave Well?

Rey: I can't imagine that anybody went away from this senate meetingd didn't go straight home and kind of have a good hard look and a think about every slave that they went past in their household after these sort of events. This raises to me a really interesting question about what it means to sort of treat one's slaves poorly or well. He says, so as long as our slaves disclose them,. We may live solitary amid their numbers, secure amid their anxieties. And finally, if die, we must certain of our vengeance amid the guilty crowd. It doesn't sound like it's worth it being mean to slaves, let alone owning them.

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