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Meantime the presumption that the very poor ought to have been able to leave epigraphic traces of themselves for modern historians to see is not in itself self-evident, while the reality of mass rural slavery in Italy in Rome's central period, which is not in dispute, could scarcely be documented from the inscriptional record alone. s In the urban domestic sphere both the range ofslavejobs and the tendency to particularism can be seen from Table 3, a list of jobs filled by domestic servants from the household of Augustus' wife, Livia.
An orator: Aelius Aristides, Eis Romen 71. Rented out: P. Wise. 5. Photis: Ap. Met. 1 r; 3-I3- For comparable situations in modest households in Rio de Janeiro, see Karasch rg87: 208. For Roman slaves or former slaves with double occupations, note I LS 7402: Flavianus, notarius (stenographer) and actor (manager); ILS 7672: P. Julius Victor, cuparius (cooper) and saccularius (porter). "'Dig. 2rO. 7 ('~he legary ojinstructum or instrumentum ') auceps bubulcus fossor ovilio pastor putator saltuarius venator vestigator vilicus/monitor ancilla aquarius atriensis fowler ploughman ditcher shepherd herdsman pruner forester hunter tracker overseer maidservant water-carrier majordomo 27 faber, qui villae reficiendae causa 14 cellararius I 5 diaetorius r6 figulus r 7 focaria IS fullo '9 molitor 20 mulio 2!
But speculation can be informed. For those who found themselves the victims of war or abduction, the sudden and abrupt shift from a state of freedom to a state of servitude, from being able to exercise control to being utterly powerless, must have been devastating. It was a situation certainly whose consequences many were not prepared to face. In 22 BC two Spanish tribes, the Astures and the Cantabri, rebelled against Roman rule. They were quickly suppressed and reduced to slavery. But in the event only a few of the Cantabri were actually enslaved, for, so Cassius Dio (54·5·2-3) reported: repaired.
