On this account they lost their privileges, poor victims of the legislative intolerance of the haughty city.

You see, it begins to be touching, already.

Then came on the scene Junius Norbanus, consul by rank, and a true democrat, who brought in a law, carried it, and gave them their freedom.

In exchange, they gave him immortality.

Henceforward, did a slave obtain a few kind words from his master over his wine?
he was a Junian Latin.