"Agathemer still a slave?
Are you joking or are you serious?
Is this true ?" "Entirely and literally true." I affirmed.
Tanno, so red that I should have thought it impossible that he could grow redder, grew redder.
"If your uncle," he roared, "did not free him in his will he was a hog.

If you haven't freed him yourself, you're a hog.

Free him here and now! Show some decency and some gratitude! Better late than never.

Here, Agathemer, get off that boy's stool and lie down between me and Entedius." "Go slow, Caius!" I admonished him.

"You just confessed that you know nothing of the circumstances, yet you give orders in my house, orders affecting my property-rights, without first acquainting yourself with all the conditions on which such orders should be based, even if you had asked and received my permission to issue them." Tanno was impulsive, even headlong, but he never wrangled or quarrelled and seldom lost his temper.