There are only subjects, people who are subject either to a god, or to the king, or to a representative of the god, or to a chieftain or whoever, but somebody in a sense owns them all, but nobody owns a citizen.

那时只有所谓的臣民,也就是那些屈从于上帝,国王,代表上帝以及部落首领或者类似的人,从某种意义上讲,人们可以完全拥有臣民,但却无人拥有公民

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