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4 Then again these same persons hold slavery to be a misfortune, and say, For man or woman ’tis disaster dire Sudden to be enslaved, and masters harsh To get.From an unknown tragic poet; cf. Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. p. 910, Adespota, No. 376. But how much more dire, think you, is the lot of those for whom there is no escape, no running away, no chance to revolt? For a slave there is an altar to which he can flee, and there are many of our shrines where even robbers may find sanctuary, and men who are fleeing from the enemy, if once they lay hold upon a statue of a god, or a temple, take courage again. These are the very things that most inspire a shuddering fear and dread in the superstitious man, and yet it is in them that those who are in fear of the most dreadful fate place their hopes. Do not drag the superstitious man away from his shrines, for it is in them that he suffers punishment and retribution.