person
Eros
A slave or freedman in Atticus's service who handled his accounts and correspondence; in 45 BC he carries letters and reckons sums between Cicero and Atticus (Att. 13.12, 13.30). Distinct from Eros Turius, freedman of Q. Turius.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.30 §1 when Eros came to me
Eros was Atticus's accounts-secretary, the man handling the financial mechanics of the Faberian debt and the gardens purchase. His reports on what "cannot be today" track the deal's progress.
- Ad Atticum 14.18 §2 Eros
Eros, a slave or freedman in Atticus's service who kept Cicero's accounts and carried his correspondence; Cicero complains he had left Eros behind precisely to settle such financial matters.
- Ad Atticum 14.21 §1 Eros, however, made haste
Eros is a slave or freedman in Atticus's service who handled accounts and the carrying of letters between Cicero and Atticus; here his speed gets a fresh dispatch from Dolabella through to Cicero.
- Ad Atticum 15.15 §1 I have written to Eros
Eros, a freedman in Atticus's service who kept Cicero's accounts and disbursed his funds; Cicero relies on him to pay out the money from a deposit held in his name.
- Ad Atticum 16.1 §1 Eros brought me your letter
Eros was Atticus's accountant and freedman, who handled Cicero's financial affairs and often carried correspondence between the two men.
- Ad Atticum 16.3 §1 awaiting Eros not without a little present
Eros was Atticus's accountant and trusted slave-secretary, who handled financial business between the two men; the "little present" is Cicero's reworked treatise sent along with him.
- Ad Atticum 16.13 §3 Eros's letter
Eros, a freedman or slave who served as Atticus's (and Cicero's) accountant and man of business; he recurs throughout these letters managing Cicero's tangled finances.