Free men
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free men · free boy · liber homo · liberi homines · the free man
in the texts
Against Timarchus
The class of free Athenian citizens, contrasted throughout with slaves regarding legal rights to gymnasia and honorable love of boys.
It did not go on to add, But the free man shall anoint himself and take exercise;
And in his treatment of the wives of free men he showed such licentiousness as no other man ever did.
But the free man was not forbidden to love a boy, and associate with him, and follow after him, nor did the lawgiver think that harm came to the boy thereby, but rather that such a thing was a testimony to his chastity.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Free men (liberi homines), the class of persons whose rights to person, property, and due process are protected by the central clauses of the Charter.
Ut liber homo amercietur pro parvo delicto secundum modum delicti, et, pro magno delicto, secundum magnitudinem delicti, salvo continemento suo;
Liber homo non amercietur pro parvo delicto nisi secundum modum ipsius delicti, et pro magno delicto, secundum magnitudinem delicti, salvo contenemento suo;
Ne corpus liberi hominis capiatur, nec imprisonetur, nec dissaisietur, nec utlagetur, nec exuletur, nec aliquo modo destruatur, nec rex eat vel mittat super eum vi, nisi per juditium parium suorum vel per legem terre.