Note 335 — Chapter VIII · THE UNFREE. THE SERF.
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“Servos conditionis huius per commercia tradunt, ut se quoque pudore victoriae exsolvant.” Germ. xxiv. The last member of the sentence is a bit of imaginative morality which we shall acquit the Germans of altogether. The very word caeteris in the next sentence shows clearly enough that if they did sell some slaves conditionis huius, they kept others for menial functions.