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mănūmissĭo , ōnis, f. manumitto,
I.the freeing of a slave, manumission. It was effected either per censum (when the person to be freed was registered in the census), or per testamentum, or per vindictam (v. vindicta, and Cic. Top. 2, 10); “in these three cases it was called justa manumissio. A fourth mode, which, however, was less valid, consisted in pronouncing the slave free before (five) friends, or inviting him to table, or by letter,” Cic. Cael. 29, 69; Gai. Inst. 1, 17; Plin. Ep. 7, 16, 4; Val. Max. 2, 6, 7; Sen. Vit. Beat. 24, 3.—
II. Transf., a remission of punishment, pardon, Sen. Clem. 1, 3, 1.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 29.69
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7.16.4
    • Seneca, de Clementia, 1.3.1
    • Cicero, Topica, 2.10
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 2.6.7
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