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| 25 | 72 | So, as you will View more quotes about understand">understand, it was impractical that I, in the auction at the house of Anesidemus, should openly bid upon, or buy, Luta, even through an agent. |
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| 25 | 69 | At best, if freed, she would be sequestered in the house, kept from public view that her shame not be broadcast. |
| 25 | 70 | "I have enemies, and am known to some," he said. |
| 25 | 71 | "And it was desirable to keep secret the true identity of the slave, Luta, lest ambitious felons obtain her and not free her, but use her to extort riches from her family, threatening to otherwise make her shame publicly known. |
| 25 | 72 | So, as you will understand, it was impractical that I, in the auction at the house of Anesidemus, should openly bid upon, or buy, Luta, even through an agent. |
| 25 | 73 | Rather I arranged, through a brigand, Decius of Venna, to steal Luta after her purchase". |
| 25 | 74 | "So," I thought, "the name of the man with the scar is 'Decius of Venna'. |
| 25 | 75 | I recalled that I had been asked about this name during my interview in the alcove, when I had been hooded and chained. |