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| 26 | 210 | In a typical View more quotes about tunic">tunic and my neck encircled with a common collar, bearing its legend, I was soon reassured as to certain particulars. |
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| 26 | 207 | As my master continued his watch, or prolonged his inquiries, I was occasionally allowed out of the court, usually to fetch water from the stone steps under the Cloth Maker's Bridge, which, with other bridges, spanned the Lena, one of the two streams that flowed through the city and debouched into Thassa. |
| 26 | 208 | The other was the Dacia, to the south. |
| 26 | 209 | Although I never saw them I also understood that at various points about the city there were large underground cisterns, designed to supply water for months in case of a siege, in which case it was supposed that the Lena and Dacia would be dammed, diverted, or fouled, and the harbor blockaded. |
| 26 | 210 | In a typical tunic and my neck encircled with a common collar, bearing its legend, I was soon reassured as to certain particulars. |
| 26 | 211 | Any doubts I might have hitherto been tempted to entertain with respect to my possible attractions or the gusto and lust of the men of Brundisium were dispelled. |
| 26 | 212 | As with many slaves, particularly when unattended, I was frequently exposed to the rowdy gauntlet of male regard. |
| 26 | 213 | Such attentions, coupled with the very clear knowledge that one is a property, and may be bought and sold, gives one a sense of self very different from that likely to be entertained by the free woman, protected by her robes and dignity. |