Re: The reason for Caesar's obtaining the two Gauls as province

From: Torsten
Message: 68620
Date: 2012-02-28

> >That makes me suspect that the 'calles', the control of which was
> >important enough for the Romans to appoint high civil servants to
> >guard them, was the route by which slaves were transported to Rome,
> >and that the use of that word was an euphemism for that disreputable
> >business. Note also that quaestors were in charge of the slave
> >auctions after successful campaigns.
>
> An interesting euphemism if it was intended to have been used as
> such.
>

Cf.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/AJP/36/3/Callium_Provincia*.html


Torsten