masters
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
master · bad master · good master · man who has the fullest power · master's eye
in the texts
Economics
Household or estate authorities responsible for training and supervising servants and stewards.
Of course, Socrates, returned Ischomachus, he must be honest and not touch his master’s property.
I think we may apply the answer generally, Socrates, and say that the master’s eye in the main does the good and worthy work.
To put it shortly, I don’t think I have discovered a bad master with good servants:
Against Stephanus I
The social category of masters, invoked to stress the abnormality of a former slave calling his master to account.
Other slaves one may see called to strict account by their masters, but here we see the very opposite:
you are masters, and I was master.