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| 69 | 17 | One View more quotes about might">might claim capture rights; one might index a recovery fee to conditions as to the slave's punishment, and so on, a high fee, even a prohibitive or exorbitant one if a severe punishment was in prospect, which an owner would be unwilling or unable to pay, a low fee if some lenience were granted. |
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| 69 | 14 | "Had I not proposed my plan," I said, "might you have thought of intervening?" "Possibly," he said. |
| 69 | 15 | "Oh?" I said. |
| 69 | 16 | "If one were interested," he said, "there are many ways in which one might intervene, or attempt to do so. |
| 69 | 17 | One might claim capture rights; one might index a recovery fee to conditions as to the slave's punishment, and so on, a high fee, even a prohibitive or exorbitant one if a severe punishment was in prospect, which an owner would be unwilling or unable to pay, a low fee if some lenience were granted. |
| 69 | 18 | Such agreements are put in writing, of course, before a praetor's man. |
| 69 | 19 | One could even keep the slave, or hide her and then sell her privately. |
| 69 | 20 | If one were a warrior, one might even issue a challenge, a challenge in virtue of sword right, the right of beauty to be claimed by means of the sword. |