From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 07:50:49 MST
It appears as if Robert Owen <rowen@technologist.com> wrote:
|Excellent letter, Jeff, if I may say so. I would like your permission to
|quote the line "We're all slaves....better than the rest." with or with-
|out attribution as you prefer. May I assume you intended the past
|tense relative to "...slaves have [had] it better."?
I agree on the excellence of the rant.
I understand, however, that the Roman slaves did not have a nice life at all.
The Greek slaves, on the other hand, were better fed, and better housed.
Greeks who could not pay their dues, would enter slavery for a limited time.
Heresay, as it goes.
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