person
Aegypta
also: Aegypta
A slave/courier of Cicero, sent to attend the sick Tiro because Cicero judged him kind and fond of Tiro.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 8.15 §1 On the fifth day before the Nones of March, Aegypta delivered your letters
The date is 3 March 49 BC, counted back inclusively from the Nones (the 7th). Aegypta was a slave courier in Cicero's service who shuttled letters between him and Atticus.
- Ad Atticum 13.3 §2 the freedman Aegypta
A freedman (libertus) of Cicero's circle who served as a courier; here he carries a letter announcing the return of M. Brutus to Italy.