person
T. Caecilius Eutychides
Eutychides
also: Eutychides, Eutychidem, Eutychide
A freedman of Atticus, manumitted under Atticus's new nomen so as to become T. Caecilius Eutychides (Att. 4.15.1). Cicero recalls his sympathy during the exile and welcomes the manumission warmly.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 4.15 §1 he will be T. Caecilius
On manumission a slave took his patron's praenomen and nomen, keeping his slave-name as cognomen; freed by Atticus (Q. Caecilius Pomponianus Atticus), Eutychides becomes T. Caecilius Eutychides. Cicero compares it to Atticus's freedman Dionysius, who became M. Pomponius Dionysius.