Why was the Roman slave Staberius Eros released or manumitted from servitude?
Staberius Eros was purchased with his own savings at a public sale and formally manumitted because of his devotion to literature. He numbered among his pupils Brutus and Cassius. Some say that he was so noble-minded that in the times of Sulla he admitted the children of the proscribed to his school free of charge and without any fee.
