person
Hippias of Calacte
Hippias
also: Hippiam, Hippias Calactinus, Hippias, Hippias of Calacte
Son of Philoxenus of Calacte, guest-friend and close connection of Cicero. In 46 BC Cicero wrote to proconsul Glabrio (Fam. 13.37) reporting that Hippias's property was being held in public ownership under another man's name, contrary to Calactine civic law, and asking Glabrio to intervene in equity.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 13.37 §1 His property, as the matter has been reported to me, is being held in public ownership under another man's name, contrary to the laws of the Calactines
The situation described — property registered in another person's name (alieno nomine) and held publice (as public/state property) — suggests an act of dispossession, possibly in the upheavals of the civil wars or through local political manipulation. Sicilian cities retained their own civic statutes under Roman rule; the "laws of the Calactines" would be Calacte's municipal code, which Cicero implies is being violated.