Mark Sidonius Falx, Jerry Toner. How to control slaves (№ 456650)

Rome is full of slaves. I have heard that one in three or four inhabitants of the Italian peninsula is a slave. Even over the vast expanse of the entire empire, whose population numbers no less than 60-70 million people, one in eight is a slave. Moreover, slaves can be found not only in rural areas. The city of Rome is swarming with all kinds of slaves, their number here is as great as in other places. Perhaps a million slaves live in the capital, and some claim that at least a third of its population are slaves. Although such assessments are nothing more than assumptions of people with a rich imagination, they at the same time indicate how important the institution of slavery was for the world of the Romans. We Romans need our slaves.