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| 18 | 307 | View more quotes about whereas">Whereas most of the slave girls in the crowd, recognizable by the brevity of their tunics and collars, in their terror and confusion, were simply fleeing, intermingled with the free persons, some, like the former Lady Publia, were well in the custody of free women. |
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| 18 | 304 | It was she who had been Lady Publia. |
| 18 | 305 | I recalled that she had not had her hair shorn until I had done it, with a shaving knife, in the cell. |
| 18 | 306 | One could not see it under the hood, but I had made it slave short. |
| 18 | 307 | Whereas most of the slave girls in the crowd, recognizable by the brevity of their tunics and collars, in their terror and confusion, were simply fleeing, intermingled with the free persons, some, like the former Lady Publia, were well in the custody of free women. |
| 18 | 308 | Certainly she was not the only slave being leashed or herded by a free woman. |
| 18 | 309 | I wondered about this, but supposed the motivations might have been multifarious. |
| 18 | 310 | Some of the free women may have taken custody of a female slave in order to use her to distract Cosians, or to barter with them, perhaps thinking to prevail upon them to accept the slave as a substitute for themselves, thereby securing their own freedom. |