ABSTRACT
The slave and the serf were alike in that they both had a pastas. But what makes them distinct in the social hierarchy is their different economic status: the close relationship existing between the serf and the land of which he was an immovable part, except when his ties were broken under the conditions author have discussed; and the equally close relationship between the slave and the money-market, which made him a movable commodity. The slave belonged to the city as essentially as the serf belonged to the country. He was less free than the serf to the degree in which he was more able to move, or rather be moved, as property. The word katakeimenos could also signify a slave who was given in pledge. Here people learn that if such a pledged slave, male or female, does an injury to someone else on the instructions of his or her katathemenos, an action is brought against the katathemenos.
