More than two thousand years ago, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder observed its harmful effects.

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So I'll tend to talk about "the Roman household," because that's what's more meaningful sociologically when we talk about this.

所以我倾向于用“罗马家户“,因为这样说，我们讨论这一问题时,更有社会学意义。

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This is a bit more of a distinctly Roman institution, even a legal institution.

更像是罗马的制度，甚至法律制度。

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And of course, there are more theories about the fall of the Roman Empire than there are about the fall of the Mycenaean world.

当然,罗马帝国衰落的理论比,迈锡尼衰落的理论更多

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That is, more or less, what did happen in the Roman world and I don't see anything that's suggested it couldn't happen in the Greek world at the time we're talking about.

那就是,或多或少的,我看不到任何事物可以表明,在罗马社会发生的事情不会,在我们所讨论的这个时期的希腊发生

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