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| 3 | 221 | These were View more quotes about free">free women, thoroughly robed, most veiled. |
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| 3 | 218 | "Let us be realistic, noble masters," said the auctioneer. |
| 3 | 219 | "Twenty-two Brundisium tarsk-bits," called a fellow, laughing. |
| 3 | 220 | Some of the women in the tiers laughed. |
| 3 | 221 | These were free women, thoroughly robed, most veiled. |
| 3 | 222 | There were few women in the tiers, perhaps fifteen or sixteen free women, and perhaps four or five slaves, who were silent, who knelt at the knees of their masters. |
| 3 | 223 | I wondered if it were safe for free women to attend a night auction in the vicinity of the wharves. |
| 3 | 224 | Presumably they were accompanied, even perhaps, waiting outside, by armed men. |