Magistri puerorum Romanorum plenumque Graeci servi erant, non liberi viri.
--- On Thu, 1/22/09, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote: Mastery of either or both of these languages did not bar you from being a slave. Plato himself was briefly enslaved in Syracuse during an unsuccessful attempt to make a philosopher king of the tyrant Dionysus.