Free man and slave
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free man · servitude · slave · slavery · slaves · enslavement
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Fourth Philippic
The moral-political contrast between free civic action and servile compulsion.
For he is well assured that you will not consent to be slaves;
If so, there is nothing left but slavery, for there is no other alternative.
But what any free man would call necessity is not merely present now, but is long ago past, and from the necessity that constrains a slave we must surely pray to be delivered.
On the Chersonese
The contrast between civic freedom and subjection that frames the stakes of resisting Philip.
If so, there is nothing left but slavery;
He is well assured that you will not consent to be slaves;
But what any free man would call necessity is not merely present now, but is long ago past, and from the necessity that constrains a slave we must surely pray to be delivered.