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Velia was the only daughter of a wealthy moneylender of ancient Byzantium. She was afflicted by a constant melancholy that was only consoled by the singing of the birds in her garden.

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Cletia was one of the four daughters of an important family of merchants of ancient Carthage, she was looking forward to her first child from her marriage to a general of Hannibal, she liked to relax while listening persian poetry.

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Sarra was a beautiful woman in a village in the south of what we know today as Tunisia, Okobo was her trusted Nubian merchant, some afternoons she would sit and read and Okobo would watch her without disturbing her reading.

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Marie was the servant of the earls in a palace in Victorian England, a fervent Christian of quiet character, disciplined and docile. She loved a job well done, cleanliness and order, also taking quick naps.

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Livia was the slave of the patricians in a villa in the heart of Imperial Rome. She was a Ceres goddess devotee, she was jovial and kind charactered, she loved horses and flowers.