 A name such as or would be typical of such persons, although in form these names are not distinguishable from those of freedmen.The "Constitutio Antoniniana" promulgated by Caracalla in AD 212 was perhaps the most far-reaching of many imperial decrees enfranchising large numbers of non-citizens living throughout the empire.It extended citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire, all of whom thus received the name "Marcus Aurelius", after the emperor's praenomen and nomen.