Captives

The ownership of women begins in the lower barbarian stages of culture, apparently with the seizure of female captives. The original reason for the seizure and appropriation of women seems to have been their usefulness as trophies.

He came to set the captives free, making sinners into saints.

Kill all the captives.

Ah! Chloe, are you also suffering, do you still remember these plains, the Nymphs and me, or do the goats and sheep, your fellow captives, serve to console you in your sorrow?

And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

Having pursued the soldiers of the enemy for eight thousand paces, they turned back to the camp with many captives.

Two of the former hostages said they spent two months in captivity and that seven captives were freed after their families paid ransom.

Ten years on, more than 6,000 women and children remain captives of the Islamic State with nearly 2,800 still missing.