That’s true, but it wasn’t the enslaving itself they took issue with. It was his provocations of a historical foe, the breach of treaties, and the dictatorial

That’s true, but it wasn’t the enslaving itself they took issue with. It was his provocations of a historical foe, the breach of treaties, and the dictatorial power he accumulated by doing so. His critics like Cato weren’t abolitionists, if it was to him, the plebeians might have been slaves too (exaggeration).