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| 15 | 235 | It is an impressive sight to see the View more quotes about women">women of a captive city, single file, stripped and on their bellies, in a long line winding through the streets and across the piazza, moving between soldiers with whips, crawling toward the yoke. |
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| 15 | 232 | After all, they are not men; they are women. |
| 15 | 233 | Too, it is usually formed not of spears but of brooms, brought from the conquering city, and the horizontal bar is hung with dangling slave beads. |
| 15 | 234 | In this, although the original meanings are perhaps lost in antiquity, most commentators see symbolized the servility and sensuousness which, as they are to be slaves, is henceforth, upon pain of death, to be required of them. |
| 15 | 235 | It is an impressive sight to see the women of a captive city, single file, stripped and on their bellies, in a long line winding through the streets and across the piazza, moving between soldiers with whips, crawling toward the yoke. |
| 15 | 236 | As they crawl beneath it, the slave beads touch their back. |
| 15 | 237 | On the other side of the yoke, while they are still on their bellies, they generally feel a collar locked on their neck. |
| 15 | 238 | It is one of many, and it, like the others, has been attached in its turn, and at its interval, to a long chain. |