Even the maidservants sneer at her clothes. Gregory took one of the maidservants upstairs and raped her. Cleopatra kills herself with an asp, as do her faithful maidservants, Charmian and Iras. Most of the people were poor handcart pullers, maidservants, hawkers and so on. For a laugh, she and her confidante Nancy masquerade as maidservants. Together, Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus and Philoetius kill the suitors and the disloyal maidservants. They bound the two maidservants, and brutally attacked the 70-year-old farmer. Januarie sends May and her maidservants to find out why Damyan is not attending him. Peasants, slaves, and maidservants were considered as property of their free-born master(s). During the Roman Empire silver mirrors were in wide use even by maidservants. Lunkaran had given some "davris" (maidservants) to his daughter in her dowry.