person
Vestorius
C. Vestorius of Puteoli, a banker and friend of Cicero and Atticus, mentioned frequently in the correspondence of the 50s and 40s BC (esp. Ad Att. 4.14; 13.46; 14.12; Ad Fam. 6.11) as Cicero's man of business for loans, deposits, and estate transactions. He is the same Vestorius known to Pliny for his Egyptian-blue pigment workshop.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 4.6 §4 Vestorius
C. Vestorius, a banker of Puteoli and a generous business contact of Cicero's. Cicero asks Atticus to send him a friendly word.
- Ad Atticum 4.14 §1 Vestorius
C. Vestorius of Puteoli, banker and shared correspondent of Cicero, Atticus, and the bay-of-Naples circle; a recurring background figure of the 50s and 40s letters.
- Ad Atticum 13.8 §1 the packet is delivered to Vestorius
Gaius Vestorius, a banker and businessman of Puteoli who managed financial affairs for Cicero on the Bay of Naples. He is the local agent through whom Cicero ran the Campanian property and inheritance business of these months.
- Ad Atticum 13.12 §4 I have had a letter from Vestorius
Gaius Vestorius, Cicero's banker-agent at Puteoli, who handled the practical side of the Brinnian inheritance. He reports the matter was referred to Cicero unopposed.
- Ad Atticum 13.45 §3 more devoted man than Vestorius
Gaius Vestorius, a banker and businessman of Puteoli who handled financial affairs for Cicero and Atticus on the Bay of Naples. He is the natural agent to manage the auction and inheritance business here.
- Ad Atticum 14.9 §1 Vestorius's freedman
Gaius Vestorius, a banker and businessman of Puteoli who handled Cicero's local financial and building affairs; his freedman here brings a bundle of Atticus's letters.
- Ad Atticum 14.14 §1 the Vestorian school
A mock-philosophical "school" (haeresis) named for Vestorius, a Puteoli banker known for his peculiar arithmetic and businessman's jargon; Atticus had evidently parodied his manner.
- Ad Atticum 15.4 §3 to which you exhort even Vestorius
C. Vestorius, a banker and businessman of Puteoli and friend of Cicero, not known for literary tastes; Cicero is amused that Atticus is even pressing the Tusculan Disputations on so unlikely a reader.
- Ad Familiares 6.11 §2 Vestorius, our friend
Gaius Vestorius, a wealthy businessman of Puteoli and long-standing friend of both Cicero and Atticus; he appears repeatedly in Cicero's correspondence as a link to the business community of Campania.