The father was no longer responsible for his acts, but with complete freedom came now also full legal responsibility.

Adults no longer talked with the former prescribed reserve in his presence; he could frequent aH public places, and participate in games before forbidden.

I The chief choice was now between a military or a legal or forensic career.

In the first case the military service by elite youth was not that of common soldiers but of companion or contubernalis in a gen eral s cohort, although even here rhetoric and declamation had some place.

For the other career private apprenticeship and instruction with some jurist or statesman for at least a year was customary.