Elite free Romans made themselves exceptionally vulnerable to those they enslaved, who slept in their bedrooms, dressed them, washed them, fed them and literally carried them around. It would take just a couple of minutes to suffocate a rich wanker with their stupid toga if you were in charge of putting that toga on them, or you could whack them on the head with a particularly fancy vase, or push them into their ludicrously expensive ponds, but enslaved people almost never did these things because the punishments for enslaved-on-enslaver violence were, even for the Romans, extraordinarily
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