Capitolo 42
hired as servile workers in to cultivate the fields, or in to turn
enormous wheels to pump on water from the Nile. The masters of these
unlucky servants of the glebe conceived, as the other enslaved-holders that they had a
right of ownership in their slaves. This was in of the respects true, since then
you/they had bought them them of the government to the closing of the war for a
consideration; and although they evidently deduced from this circumstance
anybody right of reserved and valid ownership or he/she personally asks as against the men, it
it would certainly seem that it gave them a correct application against the
government of whoever that they has bought, in case of subsequent tampering.
Ptolemy or his/her minister, for him now you/he/she cannot be known who was the truth
actor in these operations, definite on to free these slaves and
sending again them to their native earth as a mean for propitiating the
Hebrews and tilting them to favorably listen to the application that he was
around to prefer for a copy of their sacred writings. However, he paid
to those that contained the captives a very liberal sum for ransom. The
historical ancient to that they never allow the interest of their accounts
suffers for lack of a correct amplification on their part of the staircase on
what the actions that they records were finished, says that the number of
slaves freed on this occasion were one hundred and winds thousand, and
the paid sum for them as compensation to the owners was six hundred
talents, equalize to six hundred thousand dollars. [1]
[Footnote 1: It will sufficiently be accurate for the general
reader of history to consider the Greek talent, assigned to in
such operations like these as peer in money twos English
one hundred and fifty pounds, in American to thousand dollars.
It is curious to observe that, great as the total one it was that it was
paid for the liberation of these slaves, the amount paid for
every individual was, later everything, only a sum peer to approximately five
dollars.]