Note 97a — Chapter XVI · STOICISM IN ROMAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE.
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The government had in fact appointed an officer for the prevention of cruelty to slaves: ‘de iniuriis dominorum in servos qui audiat positus est, qui et saevitiam et libidinem et in praebendis ad victum necessariis avaritiam compescat’ Sen. Ben. iii 22, 3.