Well, he was getting out, and as a freeborn human animal, born as a savage into the world, he had that right, if he had any rights at all.
"Way of a Rebel"
Walter M. Miller
Here he was "Your Majesty," and people backed out of the room in which he chanced to be, stood until he gave them gracious leave to sit, and otherwise showered upon him the adoring servility that the freeborn are prone to lavish upon the representatives of monarchy.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
If freedmen were marked off sharply as a separate grade, the scanty numbers of the freeborn would be revealed.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill