I.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,
II. Subst.
A. 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.—
2. 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.—
B. 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.
