person
Hermogenes
also: Hermogene
A financier from whom ready cash (some 600,000 sesterces) could be pressed to help fund the gardens purchase in 45 BC; distinct from the singer Tigellius Hermogenes.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 12.31 §2 Hermogenes too can be a great help to us in paying cash down
Hermogenes is a source of ready money Cicero can tap to make the down payment if the Faberian debt cannot be realized in time. Cash on the nail (repraesentatio) was decisive in these property negotiations.
- Ad Atticum 13.24 §1 Hermogenes Clodius
The relayer of a third-hand rumour: Hermogenes Clodius reported that Andromenes had seen Cicero's son. The double name marks him as a freedman or client of a Clodius.