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Tullius Tiro, Ciceronis libertus, commentatus est notas, sed tantum praepositionum. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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African as a slave had just begun to be a common servant in wealthy households, but the _libertus_ was often of better blood than many a citizen.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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Mount Carmel, c.v. This is so incompatible with his being a Roman freedman, that commentators concur in supposing that the word "libertus." although found in all the copies now extant, has crept into the text by some inadvertence of an early transcriber.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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(See also p. 85.) (3) A collection of Cicero's witticisms: Quint.vi. 3, 5, 'utinam libertus eius Tiro aut alius, quisquis fuit, qui iii. hac de re libros edidit, parcius dictorum numero indulsissent.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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If a freedman (_libertus_) shall have died intestate without self-successor, [his] patron (_patronus_) shall take the inheritance of a Roman citizen-freedman ... from said household into said household.
The Twelve Tables Anonymous
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His legal condition was first that of a _libertus_ (a freedman) of Vespasian, and as such he owed by law certain definite obligations to his patron's family.
Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927
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His legal condition was first that of a libertus (a freedman) of Vespasian, and as such he owed by law certain definite obligations to his patron's family.
Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914
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Christianity in the social relations of master and slave is plain from the exceedingly small number of inscriptions containing the words servus (slave), or libertus (freedman), words which are constantly seen on pagan gravestones; the often recurring expression alumnus (foster-child) characterizes the new relation between the owner and the owned.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Roman citizen (libertus or libertinus) with full civil rights, [355] remaining, however, according to ancient custom, in a certain position of moral subordination to his late master, owing him respect, and aid if necessary.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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“Nam Ciceronis ad praesens modo tempus aptatos libertus Tiro contraxit.”
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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