"The conquest of foreign peoples is often described in terms of breaking animals to harness. The verbs domare, perdomare, subigere, frangere, coercere—all regularly used of taming animals—are widespread in accounts of Roman expansion."
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Myles Lavan, Slaves to Rome: Paradigms of Empire in Roman Culture (Cambridge University Press: 2013), p. 83
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