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The Freedmen of a Roman Wine Exporter
The freedmen of a Roman wine exporter called Paticius are from the Abritse. They're interesting because their crates of their wine have turned up all over the place. We don't really understand why the Romans freed so many slaves. People often used to say it was because they were quite nice and they said, okay darling, you can have your freedom. I'm afraid I can think of rather nastier commodification reasons.