apprentice-servant

Updated: February 17, 2026

The boy was a sort of apprentice-servant, of course, as all beginners were in those times. In the big house, he probably had a pallet bed in one of those upper dormitories where the menservants slept, and he doubtless fed with them in the lower hall at first.

F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford - Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome