LĪBERTUS

LĪBERTĪNUS. Freemen ( liber i ) were either Ingenui [ Ingenui ] or Libertini . Libertini were those persons who had been released from legal servitude. A manumitted slave was Libertus (that is, liber at us ) with reference to his master; with reference to the cla to which he belonged after manumi ion, he was Liber tin us . Respecting the mode in which a slave was manumitted, and his status after manumi ion, see Manumi io .—At Athens, a liberated slave was called ἀπελεύθερος . When manumitted he did not obtain the citizenship, but was regarded as a metoicus [ Metoicus ], and, as such, he had to pay not only the me to i cion μετοίκιον but a triobolon in addition to it. His former master became his patron προστάτης to whom he owed certain duties.