Well, I wrote the scene so that Leonidas attacked a retainer (not a slave, hired hand basically) who was not a roman (a foreign work force is cheaper than roman work force for brute work). Leonidas other hand is roman born and raised altough not sure does it weight any amount considering he was by law commited to be gladiator slave and sold as one. But overall roman slaves are rare overall, as most crimes where someone would be commited to slavery, a roman faces execution.<br/><br/>I do expect somekind punishment from nearly killing a hired hand of Dominus but I wrote it specifically that the guy was not a roman citizen (altough used a roman latin curse word). So the quote about attacking roman citizen would not apply. If Dominus would not have any hired hand foreigners working then it was a privilegded slave from africa then who had years worked for Dominus and so having bit more freedom because of that (so he is not in cage but works to help deal with new slaves or such).