People who had rather more than the usual number of servants and some also who had only a very few were nevertheless, though nominally masters, quite unable to assert their authority over even those few. Xenophon. Cyropaedia. Book 1. Chapter 1. Section 1.
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| Tomb seal with portrait of a man and two children from Palmyra, Syria Roman 2nd century CE Limestone photographed at the Seattle Art Museum. |
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