Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons

Book iii. chap. 125. Ὅσοι δὲ ῇσαν ξεῖνοί τε καὶ _δοῦλοι_ τῶν ἑπομένων,

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ἐν _ἀνδραπόδων_ λόγῳ ποιεύμενος εἶχε.

“All the strangers, and their _slaves_ accompanying them, were detained in _bondage_.” See 1 _Tim._ i. 10.

Chap. 138. Καί σφεας _δουλεύοντας_ ἐνθαῦτα Γίλλος.

“And they being _enslaved_, Gillus immediately _ransomed them_,” &c.

Chap. 140. Ἐμοὶ μήτε χρυσὸν, ὦ βασιλεῦ, μήτε ἄργυρον δίδου, ἀλλ’ ἀνασωσάμενος μοι δὸς τὴν πατρίδα Σάμον, τὴν νῦν ἀδελφεοῦ τοῦ ἐμοῦ Πολυχράτεος ἀποθανόντος ὑπὸ Ὀροίτεω ἔχει _δοῦλος_ ἡμέτερος, ταύτην μοι δὸς ἄνευ τε φόνου καὶ _ἐξανδραποδίσιος_.

“I would have neither gold nor silver; give me Samos, my country, and deliver it from _servitude_. Since the death of Polycrates, my brother, whom Orœtes slew, it hath been in the hands of one of our _slaves_. Give me this, without any effusion of blood, or reducing my countrymen to servitude.” (_Beloe._) See 1 _Tim._ i. 10.

Chap. 153. Ἀπείπας τοῖσι _δούλοισι_ μηδενὶ φράζειν τὸ γεγονὸς ἐβουλεύετο.

“He counselled _with himself about that_ which was foretold, that _Babylon_ should not be reduced to _slavery_ until this _prodigy_ should be brought forth.”