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Torture or not, some slave administrators were bold enough to extort money from the populace.{{blockquote|According to [[Suetonius]], [[Vespasian]], a strong emperor, deliberately appointed his most rapacious freedmen{{efn|These liberated slaves were not full Roman citizens.}} to [[Proconsul|proconsulships]] in the provinces with the expectation that they would amass as great a fortune as possible — fortunes that he would later appropriate by the simple expedient of execution.{{sfn|Patterson|2018|p=307}} }} How Musicus Scurranus could afford sixteen sub-slaves on his official salary was not explained; and there were other notorious cases. Most administrators could look forward to manumission after serving a number of years. A few retired with truly colossal fortunes.{{sfn|Weaver|1967|p=10}}

 

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