person
Acastus
also: Acastus
A trusted courier of Cicero who met him with letters on his arrival at Athens in October 50 BC. Likely a household slave or freedman.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 16.5 §2 Acastus is down at the harbour every day
Acastus is one of Cicero's slave-couriers, posted at the port so that letters from Tiro could be picked up and forwarded by passing travellers.
- Ad Familiares 16.10 §2 which Acastus brought
Acastus, one of the household slaves who served as couriers in Cicero's correspondence.