person
Helvia
also: matrem nostram
Mother of Cicero and his brother Quintus. Quintus recalls her thrifty habit of sealing even emptied wine-jars in a letter to Tiro.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 16.26 §2 she would set her seal even on empty flasks
Quintus recalls their mother Helvia sealing even emptied wine-jars, so a slave could not claim a jar had always been empty rather than secretly drained. The point: write even when there is nothing to report.