"Do you mean you cannot change a bailiff on a farm which you have won incontestably on final appeal in a suit at law ?" "He is no bailiff," I answered him.

"He is a free man, just as much as you or I.Sabinum is not like Latium or Etruria or Campania, where the free tenantry has vanished, or like Bruttium or Spain, where there never was any free tenantry.

The free tenantry have survived in Sabinum more completely than in any part of the world.

I have only one bailiff here and he manages only the villa-farm with a very moderate gang of slaves under him.

I do not own any more slaves on my estate.