FRIENDLY SENECA
The philosopher Senhca, who lived in the, dawn of the Christian Era, though an Important and influential personage, made a practice of dining with his slaves. Asked why he' had challenged the customary proprieties of Rome with a practice so distasteful to its highhorn citizens, Seneca replied, “With some of my slaves I dine because they are worthy of my esteem, with, others that they may become so.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 12915, 9 December 1939, Page 6
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70FRIENDLY SENECA Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 12915, 9 December 1939, Page 6
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