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Tyro in Cicero's House Slavery
Many jobs in the Roman world were done by slaves. So it's very hard to map that onto our own assumption about power influence and status. Tyro has a big part in Robert Harris' trilogy about Cicero as being the person through his eyes. He gets the power to determine what bit of Cicero we have.