For example, they might-- paterfamilias would often put a slave up in business, give a slave enough money to run a business.
比如,他们可能。。。,家长通常会让奴隶参与生意,给他一笔钱做生意。
So what do you have with all these other people, these other Romans around here, who don't have a powerful patron, who don't have a powerful paterfamilias to help them out?
那这些人怎么办?,其他普通罗马人,没有强大的庇护人,没有强大的家长帮忙?
The venerable paterfamilias, the venerable father of the family.
令人肃然起敬的男家长,家中令人肃然起敬的父亲角色。
He and his family, the emperor's family, - was, in a sense, the patron for the whole people of the Roman Empire-- - at least for all the Romans-- the paterfamilias of the entire empire.
他及其家庭,帝王的家庭,某种意义上说,就是整个罗马帝国的庇护者-,至少是所有罗马人的-,他成了整个帝国的家长。
Now slaves obviously are in the paterfamilias.
奴隶属于家长的家户。
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