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| 18 | 66 | Most View more quotes about commonly">commonly, of course, they will be slaves, as they, often beautiful, are the commonly desiderated quarry of the net and rope, but, too, of course, doubtless, at least in part, because free women are more difficult to obtain, being more carefully sheltered, protected, and guarded. |
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| 18 | 63 | Furthermore, there is no dearth of women, and on this world women, even free women, are regarded as legitimate and appropriate booty. |
| 18 | 64 | A common recreation for a tarnsman, for example, particularly when not on duty, not on maneuvers or campaign, is to steal women from a "fair city," that is, one at war with, or on poor terms with, his own city. |
| 18 | 65 | These women may be either slave or free. |
| 18 | 66 | Most commonly, of course, they will be slaves, as they, often beautiful, are the commonly desiderated quarry of the net and rope, but, too, of course, doubtless, at least in part, because free women are more difficult to obtain, being more carefully sheltered, protected, and guarded. |
| 18 | 67 | He brings the captives back to his city, where he may dispose of them as he wishes, often keeping them for a time, until, say, he tires of them, and then selling them. |
| 18 | 68 | I might mention, briefly, in passing, what seems to be a variation on this custom. |
| 18 | 69 | Spies in one city ascertain, by rumor, and such, who are supposedly the most beautiful free women of a city. |