Mulieres ad metalla damnatae

This article intends to examine the situation of the women condamned ad metalla, with particular attention to a case of a theft of a woman condemned ad salinas by latrunculi exterae gentis, and her subsequent sale to a roman centurion, Cocceius Firmus. Pomponius says that the pretium must be given back to the centurion by the fiscus. If we think that they were common latrones, the woman doesn’t lose her freedom and doesn’t have the postliminium. So the fiscus should be compelled to give back the pretium not only in case of redemptio ab hostibus but even in case of redemptio a latronibus. But, in any case, it is plane the interest of the fiscus in the recovery of damnati ad metalla.