freedman

• There will be serious injury done your health, if you take no food and rest My good Antiochus," replied the proconsul, "you are a faithful friend The freedman--an elderly, half-Hellenized Asiatic--knelt and kissed the Roman's robe My lord knows that I would die for him I believe you, Antiochus. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
• Again, the freedman was not one in the sense in which we use the term, but one who was emancipated and a member (not always a menial member) of his patron's family. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
• Scamander's patron (as they used to call a freedman's old master) was next brought to trial, and with the same result. —  Roman life in the days of Cicero
• Demetrius was Pompey's freedman, and had some of his master's greatness reflected on him. —  Roman life in the days of Cicero
• The "freedman," though a citizen, could not himself enter upon a public career; neither, in ordinary circumstances, could his children; but in the third generation the family stood on an entire equality with any other Roman family in that respect For the present it may be added that our conception of the meaning of the word "slave" must not be that attached to its modern use. —  Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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