Not by Force But by Good Will
Suthers, Hannah Bonsey Not by force but by good will' reads the inscription over the gate of a market farm in Puteoli, Roman Campania. Quintus the master lives by these words. Lucan his slave defies them. Both are nearly destroyed by them. The fugitive slave Lucan, seeking asylum, crashes the farm gate of Good Will, and Quintus rescues him. 'Slaves, serve your master as you would your Lord, ' Lucan is told. How can he possibly do that? Quintus sows discontent among ...