Amazing and rare Roman find from N. Ireland

[Alanus]

Neither do Conan's Cimmerians. But then, they're fictional.

There's a plausibility that historical Cimmerians didn't keep slaves either. We don't know enough about them to create wise-cracks. As for the Roxolani-- the lead Alanic tribe to enter Roman space-- we can use Ammianus' discourse on the Alans: "They do not know the meaning of slavery, since all are born of noble blood." (AM; Book XXXI, 2.25)

That statement, in subtle fashion, seems to place the Alans morally above the Irish and Romans on the subject of human dignity