I'd like to have other criminals beside the Dyrymoi anyway, so i also look for ideas that are not fitting to them.
Though even if you have just one or 2 kidnappers, stealing a slave for the market value is likely not worth it, especially if you consider the cost of transporting the slave to a distant place and that the more valuable skills or features the slave has, the more high profile the slave will be.
Aiding a slave to run away (propably the slave has betrayed his master and that is the payment) does not seem that plausible too, since in Rome and in a good house, the main problem will not be to get out, but where to flee to.
You propably could steal a slave and try to sell him before someone looks for him. That would require the cooperation of the slave, who will have a problem when found out, or the slave would need to be unconcious, which would look suspicious. So you'd most likely need some con, to get the slave to cooperate.
There also might be a case, where someone wants to steal a valuable high profile slave, to lock him up in his basement. Would work with a free person too.
Disguising a kidnap victim as caught runaway slave could work, but it is risky. It would depend on the reluctance of any guards to dig deeper, and with how big rome is, it is most likely that you can't predict which guards you will encounter. It would be somewhat easier, if the victim is not a Roman but some rich foreigner.
Kidnaping free people to sell them as slaves, i guess will not work well with upper class and high profile people as are supposed to be on such an auction. You hardly will get much more for them, then for any drunken plebeians or any natives of some distant provinces, that you can pick up more easily, and who will not be looked after that much. Especially since stressing any upper class skills, while driving the price up, will also give credence to the story of being an abducted patrician.
Kidnapping a specific partician to sell him to a mine, as revenge or something could work though.
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