Their furniture is very simple, their conversation limited; their heads are as well furnished as their dwellings.
The wife who has been awaiting the return of her lord, will open the door to you.

Of all useful animals, the wife is the one which the Roman peasant employs most profitably.

She makes the bread and the cakes; she spins, weaves, and sews; she goes every day three miles for wood, and one and a half for water; she carries a mule's load on her head; she works from sunrise to sunset, without question or complaint.
Her numerous children are in themselves a precious resource: at four years old they are able to tend sheep and cattle.
It is vain to ask these country people what is their opinion of Rome and the government: their idea of these matters is infinitely vague and shadowy.

The Government manifests itself to them in the person of an official, who, for the sum of three pounds sterling per month, administers and sells justice among them.

This individual is the only gift Rome has ever conferred upon them.