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Updated: May 29, 2025
A few days later I was formally sold for cash to a provincial slave- dealer, named Olynthides. In a slave-barrack which he had hired for the month only I found myself with a motley crew, but kept apart from them and comfortably lodged, well fed and considerately treated, as valuable merchandise. The day after Olynthides had bought me Nonius Libo came to inspect me.
"Phorbas gives greeting to Opsitius, and informs him that after he had been sold by Olynthides to Nonius Libo, he survived the sinking of his owner's yacht and was sold by Libo's heir to Pomponius Falco, in whose retinue he now is. Farewell." I sent off, at least once a season, a letter like this to both Tanno and Vedia. No word from either ever reached me.
"He counted out the cash from his servant's bag and I gave him the customary certificate, with a description of Almo and the statement: "'Sold on this day and date for cash' and my signature and seal. That was all there was to it." When Vocco was persistent, Olynthides averred that he had "heard" that the purchaser's name was Jegius and that he came from Cadiz.
I was sold to a fool and a brute, as you have probably inferred from my back. The marks of his barbarity which I bear, and my lasting grief for the calamity of the household in which I was born, make me unwilling to tell you anything of my past previous to my purchase from Olynthides by Nonius Libo." "Well," he said, "your feeling is natural and I shall not urge my curiosity on you.
I was not present at his chaffering with Olynthides but, after no long interval I was summoned into the courtyard and Olynthides handed me over to Nonius Libo, along with a bill of sale. Olynthides had said to me: "I make it a point always to forget the names of the slaves I buy for cash without any guarantees and resell the same way.
"Throw him out, Guntello," said Brinnaria. When Guntello returned he cheerfully inquired, with the easy assurance of an indulged favorite. "Shall I kill Tranio, Mistress?" "No!" said Brinnaria viciously. "I wouldn't have a toad killed on the word of that contemptible scoundrel. Give Tranio a moderate beating and hand him over to Olynthides to be sold at auction without a character."
When Vocco expressed astonishment Olynthides said: "There is nothing to be surprised at, the thing happens every day. It is a regular feature of slave-trading. There are all sorts of reasons why a man wants a slave without any past. Such sales are customary and habitual."
He found that Almo had been sold to a Greek slave-dealer named Olynthides, brother of the well-known dealer at Rome. He found Olynthides a small man with a club-foot. He said he remembered the matter, that he had been employed to buy Almo and resell him for cash, especially to conceal the real purchaser.
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