10-07-2014, 12:15 AM
Another alternative. If this prefect is not willing to take the small risk to enlist this fresh freedmen, he is convinced of, as a legionary, he can hire him as a freelancer. Yes, there were freelancers in the roman army. Communis opinio is, that the roman army hired freelancers, if they had no appropriate immunis. Some medici or architecti were most probably freelancers.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas