You underlined it perhaps because you were convinced that this was Milton's wonderful and liberatory, progressive celebration of the absolute inviolability of the written word.

你们划出这句子有可能是因为你们被说服了,因为这是弥尔顿精彩的释放的，开明的不断前进的对于绝对神圣的书写文字的庆祝。

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So Roman slavery and the freedom of that was actually one way that a few people in the Ancient World recognized some kind of social mobility, which was very rare in the Roman Empire.

所以罗马奴隶制以及奴隶释放制,被古代部分人认为是,某种社会阶级流动，在罗马帝国很少见。

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But legally the word client in Latin refers to the freed slaves of apaterfamilias.

但是法律上拉丁语“被庇护人“,是指被家长释放的自由人。

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Under him is his sons, his daughters, and then at the bottom are his slaves, and here are his freedmen, freed persons.

接下来是他的儿子女儿，最底层是奴隶，还有被释放的奴隶，即自由人。

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And although you were a freedman, - which was lower in status than a free person-- - there were some privileges you couldn't have-- your children would be, if they were born after you'd been freed, would be free people, not freed.

虽然奴隶成为了自由人，自由人的社会地位低于自由民-,有一些权利无法享受-,自由人的孩子，如果是出生于奴隶被释放后的，则会成为自由民，而不是自由人。

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When he freed you, if he was a Roman citizen, you would automatically become a Roman citizen also, and your children would be Roman citizens.

只要主人是罗马公民，奴隶被释放后，也能自动成为罗马公民，生下的孩子也会是罗马公民。

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But if you're a freedman you're-- the other thing I should tell you is that in Roman law if you're manumitted as a slave, you're made free, if you're manumitted in the normal way they did it, that makes you a Roman citizen, if your owner was a Roman citizen.

但如果你是自由人-,有一点我得解释一下,罗马法律规定，如果奴隶被释放了，如果是正常方法被释放的，他就会成为罗马公民，前提是他的主人是罗马公民。

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