// Substitute the word 'slave' for 'dog' and you could be back in ancient Rome!//
I doan seenk the Romani castrated their slaves - their children were slaves belonging to the master ( paterfamilias )
as I commented in another unread post ( so I can repost it as 'new and fresh') - doulos ( they spoke Greek in Rome) was displaced by names of children - pais - and the masters children were referred to as teknon/tekna.
Persicos Odi, Puer, Apparatus. Horace, Odes 1.38 :. I dislike Persian frippery, my boy: I do not care for garlands tied with linden ...
Horace is speaking to a slave....
One master mourns for his dead slave - as "deliciae" - my pet. and recalled how she danced with joy when he returned home - dead at age 8.
you may all foo - but you knew when you mentioned 'slave' I wd do a bit of gk and Latin. sunny evg outside.