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There's a satirical novel of the Roman period, The Golden Ass, about a man who's magically transformed into a donkey. At one point, he's sold to a mill, and the description of both the men and the animals in the mill (as flour-mills were considered a punitive assignment even for slaves) is absolutely haunting.