freedwoman

For another, Julia's desire to learn bespoke the sort of drive she would need as a freedwoman.

Her only true friend is her slave and later freedwoman, Phoebe.

The black freedwoman looked back in incomprehension.

Therefore, a freedwoman in the workplace could have the advantage in training and skill over a woman born to a free family of working poor.

"Well," she huffed, reddening with fury, "I will not have a freedwoman as a rival!"

I have mentioned Briseis, my mother's old freedwoman.

She was a freedwoman to the Roman Emperor Claudius.

"As a freedwoman, Acte could never have aspired.

The freedwoman was startled and unbelieving, then sulky and offended-then she wept.

After leaving this house, she went to her friend Guilhermina, a freedwoman, who Sabina knew had access to whites.

The latter surname was borne by a freedwoman, and was not necessarily used by other members of the gens.

A senator could be removed for violating moral standards: he was prohibited, for instance, from marrying a freedwoman or fighting in the arena.

"She's a freedwoman," Lee said.

"A freedwoman, eh?

Caenis was a freedwoman and secretary to the Emperor Vespasian; she was also his concubine.

After his mother's death, Quadratus assumed a mistress and lover, a Greek Freedwoman called Marcia.

Old Briseis used to say, "Master Claudius, people all think that I was your mother's freedwoman.

Claudia Acte was a freedwoman of ancient Rome who became a mistress of the emperor Nero.

She is only known through a funeral inscription found at Caesaria through her freedwoman Julia Bodina.

So that first night dirtside he put his freedwoman into his cabin, while her brother and he slept on transom couches in the wardroom.

Of course, she was a freedwoman, so the days of her slavery were long behind, but there was not an ounce of deference in her manner.

Julia Bodina (flourished 1st century) was a Roman Freedwoman from Mauretania North Africa.

Concubinage came to define many relationships and marriages considered unsuitable under Roman law, such a senator's desire to marry a freedwoman, or his cohabitation with a former prostitute.

The gigantic Gallic freedwoman Cardixa stood silently waiting for orders, and was instructed to see the ladies off the premises as expeditiously as possible.

Allia Potestas was a freedwoman from the Roman town of Perugia who lived in the 1st-4th centuries CE.