She had remained undisturbed, and it was a pleasure to Archibius to give the faithful, clever freedwoman an account of the matter with his own lips.
Thou art no more a slave, but the freedwoman of the Empress Valeria.
Does it mean the male freedman only, or does it mean the freedwoman also?
I demand equality on behalf of the freedwoman as well as the freedman.
Let the freedwoman of the South own the money she earns by her own labor, and give her the right of suffrage; for she knows as much as the freedman.
A freedwoman had roused superstitious fear in the heart of a daughter of the Cæsars!
She had as her ally the full unbridled might of the House of Cæsar, while against her there was only this stranger, a descendant of a freedwoman from a strange land.
Certain it is that for one moment the freedwoman managed to struggle to her feet and to drag herself along on her knees until her hands clutched convulsively the embroidered tunic of Dea Flavia.
I saw them just now, right across the Forum, when the wretched freedwoman clung shrieking round my shins.
But with a gesture of savage pride the freedwoman tore herself away from Nola.
The curse of the dyingfreedwoman was indeed bearing fruit.
They thought it best to retire to their luxurious homes, for they vaguely resented the majesty of death which clung round the dead freedwoman and the young living slave.
Tanno, "how should I remember the marriage of a freedwoman I never saw with a bumpkin I never heard of?
At Reate, for some years past, there lived a worthy couple, freedman and freedwoman of Vedius Vindex.
It was proclaimed that they were rivals for the favor of a pretty freedwoman and that they had agreed on this contest as a settlement of their rivalry.
But Marcia is the first freedwoman I ever knew or heard of to be treated, by everybody and at once, as if she had been freeborn and since birth in her husband's class.
What angered her was, not that the Emperor should disgrace himself by vice, but that a freedwoman should interfere with the supremacy of her will, and be a rival with her for the affections of her son.
When the young Empress had withdrawn, Titus beckoned to her faithfulfreedwoman Pythias, and told her to send for Onesimus.
She taunted Nero with his love for a freedwoman like Acte.
Partly through their bad influence, he had devoted himself heart and soul to Acte, the beautiful freedwoman of Octavia.
Esther, a Jewish freedwomanof Nero, wife of Arescusus, was still more serviceable.
Yet he who wrote these noble words was not only a flatterer to his imperial pupil, but is charged with having deliberately encouraged him in a foolish passion for a freedwoman named Acte, into which Nero fell.
While things were still under discussion, the plot was nearly ruined by the information of Volusius Proculus, an admiral of the fleet, to whom it had been mentioned by a freedwoman of the name of Ephicharis.
There was also a modification of the law of inheritance, so that women were allowed to take from their sons; but to avail herself of this new law a freedwoman must have had no less than four children.
This young freedwoman was of a character far superior to the mode of life into which she had been forced while still a slave.
The first woman who took the place which Octavia never held in Nero's affections was the Greek freedwoman Acte.
For if a freeborn woman had not borne three, or a freedwoman four children, she was undeservedly defrauded of the succession to her own offspring; and yet what fault had she committed in bearing few rather than many children?
Human passions, love and pride, were not dead in the heart of the young Roman lady; but the freedwoman embraced the hope set before her, with firmness and constancy.
He is again imprisoned for concealing your freedwoman at one of his farms.
In the morning the disappearance of the Lady Lucia Claudia and the freedwoman Cornelia excited great alarm, and an active search was instantly set on foot by Julius and Nymphidius.
And, along with his two nurses, the despised freedwoman guarded his remains and laid the last of his line beside his ancestors.
There was a freedwoman called Hispala Fecenia, a noted courtesan, but deserving of a better lot than the mode of life to which she had been accustomed when very young, and a slave, and by which she had maintained herself since her manumission.
Actresses were now permitted, on giving up their profession, to claim all the rights of other free women; and a senator could marry such or even a freedwoman without prejudice.
By the birth of three children (a freedwoman by four)[9]; II.
Once more the freedwoman understood that there was a world in which greater happiness existed, even in suffering, than in all the excesses and luxury of Cæsar's house.
It was known to her also that the young freedwoman lived in melancholy, that she was a person different from all other women of Nero's house, and that in general she was the good spirit of the palace.
Even the faithful, grateful freedwoman (the legal form of the act is still lacking) must obey the will of the patronus.
To wed even his own freedwoman is against the law for a Senator; but I shall undoubtedly receive a dispensation from the Emperor, and I care nothing for the jests of my colleagues.
The freedwoman might not repudiate her patron, her former master, who had taken her in marriage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freedwoman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
