The modern meaning of the word libertine is a man (rarely
a woman) not bound by moral laws; someone of licentious habits. It has had this meaning since 1593.
At one time it also meant a free-thinker, a
man not aligned to a particular religion.
In relation to Roman times it means a freedman, a person manumitted from
slavery or the son if a freedman.
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