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They were treated as goods, bought and sold like cattle.
人們像經營商品那樣經營他們，像買賣公?；蛏窖蚰菢淤I賣他們。
Slave owners could do what they liked with their slaves – even kill them.
誰買了一個奴隸，誰便是這個奴隸的主人。他可以隨意處置他，也可以處死他，
Slaves had no rights at all.
奴隸們沒有任何權利。
Some masters sold them to fight with wild beasts in the arena, where they were known as gladiators.
有些主人出賣他們，讓他們去參加劇場里的搏斗，他們必須在劇場里與野獸搏斗，這樣的奴隸叫角斗士。
On one occasion the gladiators rebelled against this treatment.
有一次角斗士們奮起反抗他們受到這樣的待遇。
They were urged on by a slave called Spartacus, and many slaves from the country estates rallied to him.
一個名叫斯巴達克的奴隸號召他們起來戰斗，許多莊園里的奴隸響應他的號召。
They fought with a ferocity born of desperation and the Romans were hard put to suppress the revolt, for which the slaves paid a terrible price.
他們全力以赴拼死作戰，羅馬人費盡周折才打敗奴隸大軍。他們當然進行可怕的報復，
That was in 71 BC.
這發生在公元前71年的事。
By this time new generals had become the darlings of the Roman populace.
在這段時間里，新的統帥受到羅馬人們的愛戴。
The most popular of them all was Gaius Julius Caesar.
最突出的一個就是：蓋尤斯.儒略.凱撒。
He too knew how to win the hearts of the masses, and had raised colossal sums of money for magnificent festivals and gifts of grain.
他像別人一樣善于借來大筆錢財，為民眾舉辦精彩的慶典并把糧食贈送給他們，但是他還善于做更多的事。
But more than that, he was a truly great general, one of the greatest there has ever been.
他確實是一位偉大的統帥，前所未有的最 偉大的統帥之一。
