Senator Karelius visits his quarry.
It has been two days since I consigned by recent purchase of barbarian slaves from Britannia to my stone quarry. Today, out of curiosity, I had my litter-slaves carry me the five miles from my villa to the quarry through intense heat. The slaves struggled in the heat and their muscles were stressed to the utmost while sweat rolled down their naked torsos attracting all kinds of flying, stinging insects which added to their torment. The lazy brutes slowed down several times and it was necessary for me to have my overseer apply his whip to their lazy arses.
Arriving at the quarry, the slaves were forced to kneel and no doubt enjoyed their respite from carrying my heavy, ornate litter.
For my part, shielded from the sun by the heavy drapes of my litter's canopy, watched as my newest slaves toiled deep down in the sundrenched quarry and what a pleasing sight they presented.
Now stripped of those ridiculous scraps of cloth with which they tried to maintain their modesty, they are completely naked except for their collars and shackles. This is as it should be; a slave's natural state should be total nudity leaving him free to sweat freely and making him more responsive to the overseers' whips. Additionally, a slave, like any other animal needs to attend to his bodily functions. Being naked, he simply relieves himself as he works and no time is lost in removing his loincloth.
As can be seen, my new slaves are strong, robust beasts and judging by their striped backs, it appears they have already been introduced to the whip. I give my overseers a free hand in controlling my slaves and the only requirement I make is that the slaves work hard and maximise my profit.
From what I see, several slaves have already offended in some way and are being punished. This is as it should be for a slave only learns through pain.
Altogether, my trip to the quarry was a most enjoyable one.
Picture sourced from the intern; the words are mine.
This is another, very interesting excerpt from the letter that Senator Karelius has personally written to our common friend Chris.
ReplyDeleteI heard that the Senator recently made a series of exceptionally good bargains in buying a huge number of very strong young Britannic barbarians for ridiculously low prices, thanks to the glorious multiples victories of our invincible valiant Legions in those savage Britannic, Caledonian and Hibernian isles.
Britannian warriors are highly appreciated and generally well paid in Roman Slave Markets because most often these males have not only herculean bodies, tall and massively muscled, that makes of them ideal burden-beasts even for the heaviest hard-labours; but also because, very frequently, with their blond or red hairs and their pale rosy complexion, they are uncommonly handsome and, especially the teenage and youngest ones, are ideal sex-toys for the lovers of males.
However, with his power, Senator Karelius was able to buy wholesale, directly from the Legions, as many as 6,850 young Britons, prisoners of war ……. so I heard, but they could be even more ……. that he destined to toil in his quarries and mines (see above) and in one of his estates, close to Naples, as well as at the oars of his new personal recreational galley, that he intends to launch next month …… paying on average for each of these blond and red haired young giants the ridiculous sum of less than 60 miserable denarii each ! A Tribune in the military confided to me that Karelius, for these prisoners of war, paid to the three victorious Roman General just 400,000 denarii …….. a sum that for 6,850 strong young animals means about just 58 denarii for each animal !!!!!!!
The privilege of buying wholesale, directly from the source !!!!!
When a few months later, the Slave Markets of Rome were flooded with further 15,000 young Britons, captives of war, I know that Senator Karelius, who has a special liking for massively muscled and blond Nordic male flesh, bought also in the normal Market (as he himself narrates in another post, posted here) some further 230 to 250 young Britannian herculeses, from a cunning and perfidious Syrian slave-trader named Volpiscus ……. an infamous and despicable man, who however is trading in the most gorgeous male-flesh of Rome. I’m sure that this time, even the powerful Karelius was obliged to pay to the greedy Volpiscus much more than 58 denarii for each young Briton that he dragged home, leashed behind Karelius’ litter, from Volpiscus’ store !
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The luxurious litter that Karelius mentions at the beginning of this excerpt of his letter is just one of the 22 luxurious litters ……. one bigger, more sumptuous and more comfortable than the other ….. that Senator Karelius keeps just in his main urban villa, here in Rome; and to which are exclusively dedicated, as bearers, as many as 220 young slaves ………. the most strikingly gorgeous, gigantic, massively muscled and handsome young male slaves, ever seen in Rome, aged between 17 and 25 …….. who can be divided and combined in teams of 12 or 16 or even 20 litter-bearers, depending on the size and weight of his various litters and who every day, independently from the fact that their Master is using or not them, are trained and obliged to work-out carrying the heaviest loads and running until they fall to the ground, for 14 hours per day.
ReplyDeleteSuch hard workout makes the litter-bearers of Karelius not only so admirable and “objects of desire” (in all senses) by all men and women who meet Karelius’ litter; but this makes them also the most toil-resistant transport-animals that I ever saw.
Therefore, in reading here that …… just for only five miles ! ……. these young trained athletic giants ( I think that also these 16 young litter-bearers were Britons) were “STRUGGLING IN THE HEAT AND THEIR MUSCLES WERE STRESSED TO THE UTMOST WHILE SWEAT ROLLED DOWN THEIR NAKED TORSOS”, so much that they even “SLOWED DOWN SEVERAL TIMES AND IT WAS NECESSARY TO HAVE THE OVERSEER APPLY HIS WHIP TO THEIR LAZY ARSES” certainly says two things: 1) that it was an uncommonly warm day …….. and 2) that the litter of Karelius was that day uncommonly heavy, because that day Karelius was carrying inside his litter other two friends of his, both of which are quite corpulent men.
But the 16 litter-bearers of Karelius, with about 150 pounds on the herculean shoulders of every bearer ……… even if greatly helped by the generous “encouragement ” of the overseer’s bullwhip …… were able to cover the five miles path in less than one hour and a quarter !
Admirable gorgeous transport-animals !
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ReplyDeleteWithout a continuous training, 14 hours per day, 365 days per year, no athlete in the world could ever succeed in such an extraordinary feat of strength and resistance.
I sincerely envy my noble friend Karelius not only for his exceptional animals, but also for the skill and mastery that he shows in training them at the limit of their athletic possibilities.
K.
This makes me imagine what would be my fate as one of the numerous slaves of senator Karelius and how it will push my body to its limits to build a sufficient musculature at the service of my owner who would only see my as part of his chattel.
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