[408]. Thorpe, Analecta.
[409]. Lib. v. cap. 5.
[410]. Lib. i. cap. 7, § 7, 8.
[411]. The slaves who fought on the Athenian side at Arginusae were manumitted and enrolled among the Plataeans, being thus admitted into the πολίτευμα. We learn this from a fragment of Hellanicus, preserved in the Scholiast on Arist. Ran. 694: the words are, τοὺς συνναυμαχήσαντας δούλους Ἑλλάνικός φησιν ἐλευθερωθῆναι, καὶ ἐγγραφέντας ὡς Πλαταιεῖς συμπολιτεύσασθαι αὐτοῖς. See also Niebuhr (Hare and Thirlwall), p. 204. The Langobards upon a somewhat similar occasion manumitted their serfs. “Igitur Langobardi, ut bellatorum possint ampliare numerum, plures a servili iugo ereptos, ad libertatis statum perducunt. Utque rata eorum haberi posset libertas, sanciunt, more solito, per sagittam, inmurmurantes nihilominus, ob rei firmitatem, quaedam patria verba.” Paul. Diac. de Gest. i. 13.
[412]. “Si qui vero velit servum suum liberum facere, tradat eum vicecomiti,” etc. Leg. Wil. iii. § 15. “Qui servum suum liberat, in aecclesia, vel mercato, vel comitatu, vel hundreto,” etc. Leg. Hen. I. 1, § 78.
[413]. For example Wilfrið's, at Selsey; see above, p. 211.
[414]. Leg. Wihtr. § 8.
[415]. Wulfwaru in her will directs her legatees to feed twenty freolsmen or freedmen. Cod. Dipl. No. 694. Ketel commands that all the men whom he has freed shall have all that is under their hand,—probably all they had received as stock, or had been able to gain by their industry. Cod. Dipl. No. 1340.
[416]. Leg. Will. Conq. iii. § 15.
[417]. “Qui servum suum liberat, in aecclesia, vel mercato, vel comitatu, vel hundreto, coram testibus et palam faciat, et liberas ei vias et portas conscribat apertas, et lanceam et gladium, vel quae liberorum arma sunt, in manibus ei ponat.” Leg. Hen. I. lxxviii. § 1. Hence the manumitted serf is called freo ⁊ færewyrð, free and fareworthy, that is, having the right to go whither he chooses.