Was he described as 'filius meus' in a public document?
Junian Latin.

Did he wear the cap of liberty, the pileus, at his master's funeral?
Junian Latin.

Did he disembowel his master's corpse?
Junian Latin, once more, for his trouble.
What a fine fellow this Norbanus must have been! What an eye for everything, down to the details of a funeral procession, in which he could find an excuse for emancipation! And that, too, in the midst of the wars of Marius and Sylla in which he took part.

I can picture him seated before his tent, the evening after the battle.

Pensive, he reclines upon his shield as he watches the slave who is grinding notches out of his sword.