Agrippa was one day overheard by his freedman Eutyches expressing a wish for Tiberius ' death and the advancement of Caligula, and for this he was cast into prison.

According to Josephus however, it was Antonia, the mother of Livilla, who finally alerted Tiberius to the growing threat Sejanus posed ( possibly with information provided by Satrius Secundus ), in a letter she dispatched to Capri in the care of her freedman Pallas.

In order to ingratiate himself with the people, who still cherished the memory of the Gracchi, Saturninus took about with him Lucius Equitius, a paid freedman, who made himself out to be the son of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.

* Atilius, a freedman, built an amphitheatre at Fidenae in the reign of Tiberius, which collapsed, killing between twenty and fifty thousand spectators.

* Tiberius Claudius Narcissus ( 1st c .), freedman and secretary to the Roman emperor Claudius

Claudius ’ freedman Tiberius Claudius Narcissus supported a remarriage to Paetina.

Another freedman, Gaius Julius Callistus, was against Claudius remarrying Paetina and stated to Claudius that he divorced her before and that remarrying Paetina would make her more arrogant.

** Lollia Paulina as she was a rival for Claudius ’ hand in marriage as proposed by the freedman Callistus.

Agrippina had sent away Narcissus shortly before Claudius ' death, and now murdered the freedman.

Upon the accession of Claudius as emperor in 41, Vespasian was appointed legate of Legio II Augusta, stationed in Germania, thanks to the influence of the Imperial freedman Narcissus.

As Claudia was widely known to be the illegitimate daughter of the freedman, Boter, Claudius repudiated the child and he had her laid at Urgulanilla's doorstep.

Recalled to Rome, he nominated Marcus Claudius Glicia, the son of a freedman, as dictator.

* Marcus Claudius C. f. Glicia, the son of a freedman, was nominated dictator by Publius Claudius Pulcher, following the Battle of Drepana in 249 BC.

* Gaius Claudius, probably the descendant of a freedman of the Claudian house, was one of the suite of Publius Clodius Pulcher on his last journey to Aricia.

* Claudius Felix, a name assigned by some writers to Marcus Antonius Felix, a freedman of the emperor Claudius, who was later procurator of Judaea.

* Gaius Julius Callistus, a freedman of the Caligula, influential during his reign and that of Claudius.

But another freedman, Gaius Julius Callistus, was against Claudius remarrying Paetina and stated to Claudius that he divorced her before ; Callistus said that remarrying Paetina would make her more arrogant.

The third freedman, Marcus Antonius Pallas, recommended Claudius ' niece and Caligula's sister Agrippina the Younger, who also had a child from a previous marriage, in this case, the future Emperor Nero.

Thus the baths erected by Claudius Etruscus, the freedman of the Emperor Claudius, are styled by Statius balnea, and by Martial Etrusci thermulae.

* Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius

They were persuaded after Claudius's freedman and secretary Narcissus addressed them: seeing a former slave in place of their commander, they cried " Io Saturnalia!

According to Tacitus, Narcissus hoped to bring down Agrippina by revealing her affair with the freedman Pallas, which would also have destroyed her son.

He was a freedman, and his manumitter has been identified with Verrius Flaccus, an authority on pontifical law ; but for chronological reasons the name of Veranius Flaccus, a writer on augury, has been suggested ( Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist.

Further, the similarity between the two names can hardly be accidental ; it is suggested that the poet may have been adopted by the courtier, or that he was the son of a freedman of Piso.

* Flaccus, freedman composer ( second century BC )

After that in 67, Nero would order a young freedman Sporus to be castrated and then marry him ; according to Dion Cassius, Sporus bore an uncanny resemblance to Sabina, and Nero even called him by his dead wife ’ s name.

The freedman Milichus later discovered the conspiracy and reported it to Nero's secretary, Epaphroditos, after his wife convinced him to do so.

Abd al-Rahman and a small selection of his family fled Damascus, where the center of Umayyad power had been ; people moving with him include his brother Yahiya, his four-year old son Sulayman, and some of his sisters, as well as his former Greek slave ( a freedman ), Bedr.

The secretariat was divided into bureaus, with each being placed under the leadership of one freedman.

When a freedman of Nero was giving a gladiatorial show at Antium, the public porticoes were covered with paintings, so we are told, containing life-like portraits of all the gladiators and assistants.

Unlike the preceding Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, he seems to have had little interest in the business of administration and tended throughout his reign to leave the practical running of the state to a succession of favourites, beginning at this time with Saoterus, a freedman from Nicomedia who had become his chamberlain.

While in the mid-19th century it was customary to identify him as a freedman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor Domitian, this identification, which no ancient sources suggest, then lost support.

Encolpius and companions are invited, along with Agamemnon, to a dinner at the estate of Trimalchio, a freedman of enormous wealth, who entertains his guests with ostentatious and grotesque extravagance.

Of his perfect accounting books, none survived: the one he had was burnt, the other was lost at sea with the freedman carrying it.

Sullas proscription was overseen by his freedman steward, Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus, and was rife with corruption.

: The work was completed, in accordance with the will, in 330 days, by the decision of the heir Pontus Mela, son of Publius of the Claudia, and Pothus, freedman

The emperor Nero had two marriages to men, once as the bride ( with a freedman Pythagoras ) and once as the groom.

Around that time, colonial legislations, concerned with this growing and strengthening population, passed discriminatory laws that visibly differentiated these freedman by dictating their clothing and where they could live.

It was made a misdemeanor, punishable with fine or imprisonment, to persuade a freedman to leave his employer, or to feed the runaway.

The emancipation offered, however, was still reliant upon one's master agreement ;" no slave will be accepted as a recruit unless with his own consent and with the approbation of his master by a written instrument conferring, as far as he may, the rights of a freedman "

His father was a freedman and a dealer in salt fish, with which he combined the occupation of smuggling.

On returning to Rome, Felix was accused of using a dispute between the Jews and Syrians of Caesarea as a pretext to slay and plunder the inhabitants, but through the intercession of his brother, the freedman Pallas, who had great influence with the Emperor Nero, he escaped unpunished.

The institution of wala ' as a requirement to enter Muslim society ceased to exist, but acquired political significance with the formation of troops entirely composed of freedman in the service of the caliph, a practice which persisted through the Ottoman period.

Originally the term mawla ( singular of mawali ) referred to a party with whom one had an egalitarian relationship, such as a relative, ally, or friend, but the term eventually came to designate a party with whom one had an unequal relationship, such as master, manumitter, and patron, and slave, freedman, and client.