Servants
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servants · servant · work-people · a servant · apprentices · bakingmaid · footman · girl · indented servants · labourers
in the texts
Cyropaedia
Household dependents used as examples for punishment and domestic provisioning.
At any rate, the soldiers need provisions no whit less than the servants in your house.
Tell me, grandfather, said he, if one of your servants runs away and you catch him again, what will you do to him?
What else, said he, but put him in chains and make him work?
Economics
The household laborers, including maids and specialized workers, whom the mistress and master direct, train, reward, punish, and supervise.
you will have to see that any servant who is ill is cared for.
but those whose duty it is to work outside she sends forth to their work;
For I get one of the servants to act as prosecutor or defendant, and try to confute him;
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus
A legal status category relevant to the inquiry about relationship to a victim.
and that in the oath inquiry shall be made as to what the relationship is, even if the victim be a servant;
Institutes of Roman Law
Domestic servants owed wages, ranked among absolutely privileged creditors in modern law.
Modern law adds Servants who are creditors for their wages, and the Fiscus which has a claim for arrears.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
A recognized class of persons bound to service or labor by contract or indenture, distinct from slaves.
And we find, that at and before the adoption of the constitution, the persons recognized by the State laws as “servants,” constituted a numerous class.
The words “service or labor” do not necessarily, nor in their common acceptation, so much as suggest the idea of slavery—that is, they do not suggest the idea of the laborer or servant being the property of the person for whom he labors.
Memorabilia
Household subordinates used in examples of contentment, punishment, and physical endurance.
only my cloak.
Better than I, so far as I can tell.
Were you alone, or had you a footman with you?