A Escrava Isaura 7.119 · 7.119

The comparison sharpens it: even the public hangman — the carrasco, the most reviled office of the old order — is hated less than the overseer. It is a startling claim, and the next sentence explains it by naming who is hated more still, and why the feitor eclipses even him.

Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.

You are reading a page of the A Escrava Isaura — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.

The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.

Also on our shelves:

• Plato's Phaedrus — complete, ancient Greek
• Heraclitus, the Fragments — complete
• Dante's Inferno — Italian, canto I
• Dom Casmurro — Brazilian Portuguese