(adjective) : lībertus, a, um, = liberatus, from libero
* Made free, set free, only as subst., one made free, a freedman, an emancipated person (so called in reference to the manumitter; cf. libertinus, II., and on the several classes of freedmen, v. Sanders ad Just. Inst. 1, 5, 3).
* Lit.
* Līber-tus, i, m.: tibi servire mavelim Multo, quam alii libertus esse,Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 47: nec mihi quidem libertus ullus est,id. Curc. 4, 3, 15: feci, e servo ut esses libertus mihi,Ter. And. 1, 1, 10: libertus Cossinii,Cic. Fam. 13, 23: Ciceronis libertus Tiro, Quint. 10, 7, 31: Claudii Caesaris libertus,id. 6, 3, 81: servos nostros libertos suos fecisset,Cic. Mil. 33, 90; Suet. Claud. 27; Cic. Fam. 13, 21, 2; id. Sest. 35, 76: patrono in libertum manus injectio sit, Quint. 7, 7, 9; cf. id. 11, 1, 66.
* Transf., in gen., a freedman, without reference to the manumitter; for the usual libertinus (only in late Lat.): de libertis et eorum liberis,Cod. Just. 6, 7 (for which: de libertinis,Just. Inst. 1, 5; Cod. Just. 10, 56).

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