by Peter Woody
A special slave auction took place on Nov 4th in Subura where Mango Achille Claudius had several slaves from the provinces on display.
Crowds of patricians, soldiers and simple citizens gathered in front of the Latrinae in hopes of finding a bargain.
Strangely enough, moments after they were purchased, many of the slaves managed to escape.
Citizens, suspicious that the Mango was involved with the loss of their new slaves thought to report him to the praetorian guard, but feared any complaints would not be heard because of the Mango's many connections with the higher ranking guards
Two of the escaped slaves, Pompeo Giordano, once a clerk in a well known shop, and Sheherazade, a beautiful slave from the Orient, were last seen running hand in hand toward a public park where they disappeared.
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