person
Demeas
also: Demean
A letter-carrier shuttling between Cicero and Atticus in the spring of 45 BC (Att. 13.30-13.31).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.30 §1 I had just dispatched Demeas to you
Demeas was a courier carrying letters between Cicero and Atticus in the summer of 45 BC. The traffic of named messengers (Demeas, Eros) marks the daily, near-hourly rhythm of this correspondence.