person
Acutilius
also: Acutilian, Acutiliano, Acutilio, Acutilius
A man at Rome, given to long-winded talk, with whom Atticus had a legal or financial matter (the 'Acutilian business'); Cicero handled it on Atticus's behalf and passed the advisory role to Peducaeus.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.4 §1 the Acutilian quarrel
A protracted business dispute between Cicero and one Acutilius that Atticus had undertaken to settle on Cicero's behalf in Greece. Cicero repeatedly nags him to finish it in the early letters.
- Ad Atticum 1.5 §4 The Acutilian business
A legal or financial matter at Rome involving one Acutilius that Atticus had entrusted to Cicero before leaving for Greece; Cicero, finding no dispute necessary, passed the advisory role to the jurist Peducaeus.