SLAVE Copy link • SLAVEservus: verna (born-slave): mancipium (slave by purchase, or prisoner taken in war): famulus (as attendant): puer (as waiting-boy): minister (as waiter). The slaves, servi; servitia; also, servitium; corpora servilia; mancipia: young slaves (i. e., recently bought), venales novitii: the slaves of a family, familia: to be a slave, servum esse; in servitute esse (servitutem servire rare and forced): to be anybody’s slave, servire alicui or apud aliquem: to make anybody one’s slave, aliquem in servitutem redigere; alicui servitutem injungere; aliquem servitute afficere: to sell anybody for a slave, aliquem sub corona vendere: to be sold for a slave, sub corona vendi: a runaway slave, fugitivus. Figuratively, The slave of lust, servus libidinum: to be the slave of anybody or anything, servum esse alicujus or alicujus rei; servum esse potestatis alicujus; alicui rei obedire: to be the slave of sensual pleasures, voluptatum esse ministrum; corporis voluptatibus se dedisse; voluptatibus obedire (Cic.).