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| 16 | 1074 | These rings may View more quotes about serve">serve various purposes, such as the display of disgraced females destined for slavery, most likely debtors, or the public punishment of errant slaves, but their number is largely dictated by the occasional use of displaying captured, stripped free women of enemy cities. |
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| 16 | 1071 | Bina's hands were thonged tightly together before her body. |
| 16 | 1072 | A ring, on a rope, one of several, was lowered from the ceiling. |
| 16 | 1073 | These rings, when lowered, hung a few feet above the floor, some six or seven feet above it, in the open space between the tables. |
| 16 | 1074 | These rings may serve various purposes, such as the display of disgraced females destined for slavery, most likely debtors, or the public punishment of errant slaves, but their number is largely dictated by the occasional use of displaying captured, stripped free women of enemy cities. |
| 16 | 1075 | These women, during the course of a victory feast, are caressed by whips, or beaten by them, until they beg, though free, to serve the tables as slaves. |
| 16 | 1076 | After they have so served, Ahn later, they are taken below. |
| 16 | 1077 | There they will be properly branded and collared, and will begin to be taught the lessons, intimate and otherwise, appropriate to their new condition in life. |