[59] The same number of four hundred belonged to an estate which an African widow, of a very private condition, resigned to her son, whilst she reserved for herself a much larger share of her property.

[60] A freedman, under the name of Augustus, though his fortune had suffered great losses in the civil wars, left behind him three thousand six hundred yoke of oxen, two hundred and fifty thousand head of smaller cattle, and what was almost included in the description of cattle, four thousand one hundred and sixteen slaves.

[61] [Footnote 53: Seneca de Clementia, l.i.c.24.The original is much stronger, "Quantum periculum immineret si servi nostri numerare nos coepissent."] [Footnote 54: See Pliny (Hist.Natur.l.

xxxiii.) and Athenaeus (Deipnosophist.l.vi.p.

272.) The latter boldly asserts, that he knew very many Romans who possessed, not for use, but ostentation, ten and even twenty thousand slaves.] [Footnote 55: In Paris there are not more than 43,000 domestics of every sort, and not a twelfth part of the inhabitants.