(adj.Subst.) : lībertīnus, a, um, adj.libertus
* Of or belonging to the condition of a freedman (opp. ingenuus, of the condition of a freeborn person; cf. in the foll. the passage Tac. A. 15, 57, and under II. A. the passage from Gai. Inst. 1, 10 and 11): homo liber, qui se vendidit, manumissus non ad suum statum revertitur, quo se abdicavit, sed efficitur libertinae condicionis,enters into the condition of a freedman, becomes a freedman,Dig. 1, 5, 21: in classem mille socii navales cives Romani libertini ordinis scribi jussi,Liv. 43, 12, 9; 42, 27, 3 (for which: navales socii cives Romani, qui servitutem servissent,id. 40, 18, 7); Suet. Gram. 18: Atilius quidam libertini generis,Tac. A. 4, 62; 2, 85; Suet. Aug. 44: libertinus homo,a freedman,Cic. Balb. 11, 28; id. Cat. 3, 6, 14; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, § 124; cf.: mulieris libertinae sermo,of a freedwoman,Liv. 39, 13, 2: libertina mulier,Tac. A. 15, 57; Suet. Calig. 16: ut me libertino patre natum,of a father who was a freedman,Hor. S. 1, 6, 6; so,id. ib. 45; 46; id. Ep. 1, 20, 20: sunt etiam libertini optimates,Cic. Sest. 45, 97: miles,Suet. Aug. 25: plebs,Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 48: opes,Mart. 5, 13, 6: homines libertini ordinis,Gell. 5, 19, 12.—Hence
* Subst.
* Lībertīnus, i, m., a freedman (in reference to his status in society or the state; whereas a freedman was called libertus in reference to the manumitter): qui servus est, si manumittatur, fit libertinus,Quint. 5, 10, 60; cf.: servus cum manumittitur, libertinus: addictus recepta libertate ingenuus,id. 7, 3, 27: liberorum hominum alii ingenui sunt, alii libertini. Ingenui sunt, qui liberi nati sunt: libertini sunt, qui ex justa servitute manumissi sunt,Gai. Inst. 1, §§ 10 and 11; Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 10: sed ita pars libertinorumst, nisi patrono qui advorsatust, ni illi offecit, etc.,id. Pers. 5, 2, 57: Ti. Gracchus libertinos in urbanas tribus transtulit,Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 38; id. Phil. 3, 6 fin.: libertini centuriati,Liv. 10, 21, 4: libertinis detrahenda est auctoritas,Quint. 11, 1, 88: neminem libertinorum adhibitum ab eo cenae,Suet. Aug. 74: primus omnium libertinorum scribere' historiam orsus,id. Rhet. 3: quae deberetur cuidam libertino, clienti tuo,id. Caes. 2; cf. id. Claud. 26; Hor. S. 2, 3, 281: unde Mundior exiret vix libertinus honeste,id. ib. 2, 7, 12: libertinis nullo jure uti praetextis licebat,Macr. S. 1, 6, 13.
* Transf., the son of a freedman, opp. libertus, the freedman himself (only acc. to a statement of Suetonius and of Isidore; v.the foll.): ignarus, temporibus Appii et deinceps aliquandiu libertinos dictos non ipsos, qui manumitterentur, sed ingenuos ex his procreatos,Suet. Claud. 24: libertorum filii apud antiquos libertini appellabantur, quasi de libertis nati. Nunc vero libertinus aut a liberto factus aut possessus,Isid. Orig. 9, 4, 47: libertinos ab ingenuis adoptari jure posse, Mas. Sab. ap. Gell. 5, 19, 11.
* Lībertīna, ae, f., a freedwoman, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 16: ingenuamne an libertinam?id. ib. 3, 1, 189: amore libertinae perinfamis,Suet. Vit. 2: aulica,id. Oth. 2; Gai. Inst. 3, § 51: tutior merx est Libertinarum,Hor. S. 1, 2, 48: Myrtale,id. C. 1, 33, 15: Phryne,id. Epod. 14, 15: libertinas ducere,Ulp. Fragm. 13, 1: libertinae quae longa veste uterentur,Macr. S. 1, 6, 13.

lībertīnus, i, v. 1. libertinus, II. A.

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