Note 525 — Chapter III · THE CLASSES OF THE POPULATION AND THE THEORY OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THE DEVELOPED REPUBLIC
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Suet. Claud. 24 (Claudius said that App. Caecus, censor in 312 B.C., had chosen the sons of libertini for the Senate) “ignarus, temporibus Appii et deinceps aliquamdiu, ‘libertinos’ dictos, non ipsos, qui manu mitterentur, sed ingenuos ex his procreatos.”