λιβερτῖνος, -ov, 6, a Lat. word, libertinus, i.e. either one who has been liberated from slavery, a freedman, or the son of a freedman (as distinguished fr. ingenuus, i. e. the son of a free man): 4 συναγωγὴ ἡ λεγομένη (or τῶν λεγομένων Tdf.) λιβερτίνων, Acts vi. 9. Some suppose these libertini [A.V. Libertines] to have been manumitted Roman slaves, who having embraced Judaism had their synagogue at Jerusalem ; and they gather as much from Tac. Ann. 2, 85, where it is related that four thousand libertini, infected with the Jewish superstition, were sent into Sardinia. Others, owing to the names Κυρηναίων καὶ ᾿Αλεξανδρέων that follow, think that a geographical meaning is demanded for λιβερτ., and suppose that Jews are spoken of, the dwellers in Libertum, a city or region of proconsular Africa. But the existence of a city or region called Libertum is a conjecture which has nothing to rest on but the mention of a bishop with the prefix “libertinensis” at the synod of Carthage a. p. 411. Others with far greater probability appeal to Philo, leg. ad Gaium § 23, and understand the word as denoting Jews who had been made captives by the Romans under Pompey but were afterwards set free; and who, although they had fixed their abode at Rome, had built at their own expense a synagogue at Jerusalem which they frequented when in that city. The name Libertines adhered to them to distinguish them from the free-born Jews who had subsequently taken up their residence at Rome. Cf. Win. RWB. 5. v. Libertiner; Hausrath in Schenkel iv. 38 sq.; [B. Ὁ. 5. v. Libertines. Evidence seems to have been discovered of the existence of a “ synagogue of the libertines” at Pompeii; ef. De Rossi, Bullet. di Arch. Christ. for 1864, pp. 70, 92 sq.]

Λιβερτῖνος Libertinos 1x

a freedman, one who having been a slave has obtained his freedom, or whose father was a freed-man; in NT the λιβερτῖνοι probably denote Jews who had been carried captive to Rome, and subsequently manumitted, Acts 6:9*

Λιβερτῖνος, -ου, ὁ (Lat. libertinus), a freedman: ἡ συναγωγὴ ἡ λεγομένη Λιβερτίνων, Ac 6:9 (Bl. thinks the original reading was Λιβυστίνων, Phil. Gosp., 69 f.).†

Λιβερτῖνος. For a conjecture that in Ac 65 we should read not Λιβερτίνων, but Λιβυστίνων, with reference to Jews inhabiting Libya, see Blass Phzlolugy, p. 69 f.

Λιβερτῖνος (Libertinos) — Freedmen. λῑβερτῖνος, ὁ, = Latin libertinus, freedman, [NT]:—also λίβερτος, = Latin libertus, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]