slaves of the household
group · 4 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the slaves · fellow slaves · female slaves · his slaves · household slaves · members of the household · my female slaves · servants · slaves · the defendants' slaves
spoken of as
3 expressionsHousehold slaves1 mention
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus (Greek)
The rest of the female slaves (they were in a tower room where they live), when they heard the tumult, closed the door leading to the tower, so the men did not get in there;
The Defendants' Slaves“household slaves”1 mention
Against the Stepmother for Poisoning (Greek)
Owing, then, to the nature of the slaves’ evidence, I proposed to have their story tested under torture after making a written note of my charges against this woman;
The Household Slaves1 mention
Against Aphobus III (Greek)
all the slaves of the household know that the plaintiff used to sell these articles.
in the texts
Against the Stepmother for Poisoning
The household slaves belonging to the defense, whom the speaker sought (unsuccessfully) to have interrogated under torture regarding the stepmother's earlier poisoning attempt.
Owing, then, to the nature of the slaves’ evidence, I proposed to have their story tested under torture after making a written note of my charges against this woman;
because then, if the slaves had admitted nothing, he would have confronted me with a vigorous defence based on certainty, and his mother would have been cleared of the present charge.
In the first place, I was ready to torture the defendants’ slaves, who knew that this woman, my opponents’ mother, had planned to poison our father on a previous occasion as well, that our father had caught her in the act, and that she had admitted everything— save that it was not to kill him, but to restore his love that she alleged herself to be giving him the potion.
Against Aphobus III
The slaves of Demosthenes's household, repeatedly offered for examination by torture as evidence in the dispute.
all the slaves of the household know that the plaintiff used to sell these articles.
I was ready, men of the jury, regarding this point also to give over to him to be tested by torture my female slaves, who remember that my father on his death-bed set this man free.
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus
Enslaved household members, some of whom escape or barricade themselves during the seizure.
The rest of the female slaves (they were in a tower room where they live), when they heard the tumult, closed the door leading to the tower, so the men did not get in there;
And they were not content with having these, but went on to my farm (I have a piece of land near the Hippodrome, and have lived there since my boyhood), and first they made a rush to seize the household slaves, but since these escaped them and got off one here and another there, they went to the house, and bursting open the gate which led into the garden (these were this man Evergus, the brother o …
Letters to Lucilius
The enslaved persons within a Roman household, subject to arbitrary cruelty
" Nay, fellow slaves, if you consider that fortune has just as much power over both.
But meanwhile the wretched slaves are not permitted to move their lips even for this, to speak.
Why, except that a most arrogant custom has set about the dining master a throng of standing slaves?