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> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:53:17 GMT, "tile" wrote:
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>>let us be exact..
>>what percentage of greek slaves and when ??
>>and how many of them were philosophers, artists, cultured people ??
>
> Do you have any statistics? If not, why do you ask other people to
> provide exact proof?
>
>>the word salary comes from Salis ( the soldiers were paid with salt )
>>while the word soldier comes from the worls Solidus ( a special coin mint
>>to pay soldiers )
>>from Solidus the word became soldus.. from soldus the word Soldatus..
>> or were people that were sold as slaves to pay their own debts ( or
>>criminals for a certain type of offences )
>
> We can see that you studied Latin.
>
>>Rome always was generous with the people that accepted its domination..
>
> Of course, most of our evidence of that was written by the Romans.
>
> --
> Barbara Vaughan
> My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot
> it
> I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
well. i was curious to know why people wrote about
greek slaves, as if the Romans were just picking people in the greek
streets and sell them as slaves.
Slaves were just bounty.. and most of all prisoners of war
or inhabitants of towns that were resisting the roman occupation..
While on the contrary Greeks were highly appreciated as artists..
philosophers.. scientists. pedagogues.. teachers
and so on.
Besides. there were slaves and free men. but also LIBERTI.. people that were
slaves and got or bought their liberty..
one of the most famous slaves is the Queen Boadicea.
who apparently said..
quod desertum faciunt.. idem pacem appellant.
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