THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 149The monograph of Mouritsen (2011a) fi lls a large gap in recent scholarship on
freedmen. Junian Latins , that is, ex- slaves freed informally, have attracted an increasing
amount of attention. It seems agreed that they were a numerically signifi cant group
among freedmen. Their identifi cation in inscriptions, however, remains problematic,
as they carry no distinctive onomastic markers. See Sirks (1981, 1983), Weaver (1990,
1997), López Barja de Quiroga (1998). Camodeca (2006) has usefully assembled the
dossier of Venidius Ennychus of Herculaneum, a promoted Junian Latin. On Junian
Latins (and freedmen in general) at Herculaneum see de Ligt and Garnsey (2012).