This is also important though for Roman politics, because if you're if a freedman, - or even if you're a free person-- sometimes see freemen would connect themselves to a powerful Roman who was higher status than them, because they could use him for important things.

同时对罗马政治也很重要，因为即使是自由人，甚至是自由民-,有时候也会依附有权有势,地位高于他们的罗马人，以谋求他们的帮助。

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It's been said that to quote anybody is necessarily to misrepresent him, and this fact is obviously a very good thing for Lady Mary Chudleigh since Milton would certainly not himself have wanted to suggest that women are superior to men.

有这样一种说法，引用任何人的话都难免曲解其原意，很显然这对玛丽·恰德莱夫人的论证是有利的,因为弥尔顿的原意绝对不可能是说,女人的地位要高于男人。

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