city-slave

Updated: February 25, 2025

The demoralization inseparable from the absence of freedom, and the terrible inconsistency between formal and moral right, were far more glaringly apparent in the case of the half or wholly cultivated as it were genteel city-slave than, in that of the rural serf who tilled the field in chains like the fettered ox.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

The demoralization inseparable from the absence of freedom, and the terrible inconsistency between formal and moral right, were far more glaringly apparent in the case of the half or wholly cultivated as it were genteel city-slave than, in that of the rural serf who tilled the field in chains like the fettered ox.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)