servus

• For instance, the old Latin word servus was used for both serfs and chattel slaves. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• Instead of giving him rights like those of the "servus," he was deprived of all rights, marital, parental, proprietary, even the right to live. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
• Tell me plainly; am I a slave Servulus, non servus, my dear boy. —  In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
• [4] This dependence Felix expresses by the term servus conditionalis_, applied to Jesus. —  Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031)
• The chaplain of one of the counts of Orthez, defending his own unpriestly fondness for hunting, asserted that the ten horns of the stag (_cerf_) stood for the Decalogue; and that the stag was to be as ardently followed as the sovereign pontiff, the latter being himself le cerf des cerfs,--servus servorum If a husband were seriously rasped by his wife, or their tempers could not agree, he was wont to retire her to a convent. —  A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees

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