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Updated: June 22, 2025
Their owners, as 'senatores, 'clarissimi, or at least 'curiales, spent their lives in the cities, luxurious and effeminate, and left their slaves to the tender mercy of 'villici, stewards and gang-drivers, who were themselves slaves likewise.
Like the villici, they were a product, of the tendency to live away from the estate; but they gained ground at the expense of the servile bailiffs, probably in consequence of their greater trustworthiness and keener interest in the soil. But time was needed to effect these changes.
And a very respectably old lady she must have been, to deal with the villici and the coloni, if her age bore suitable relation to that of her husband. The ripe maturity of many of the rural writers I have introduced cannot fail to strike one.
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