person
Lucius Cossinius Anchialus
Anchialus
also: L. Cossinius Anchialus, Anchialus
Freedman of L. Cossinius, commended by Cicero to Servius Sulpicius Rufus in Fam. 13.23. He is described as highly regarded by his patron and by Cicero, and praised for probitas (integrity), humanitas (civility), and observantia (attentiveness). His Greek cognomen Anchialus is typical of freedmen of eastern Mediterranean origin. Distinct from the slave Anchialus (person:anchialus) of Egnatius Rufus (Fam. 13.45).
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 13.23 §1 his freedman L. Cossinius Anchialus
A Roman freedman took his patron's praenomen and nomen on manumission; L. Cossinius Anchialus therefore signals that Anchialus was enslaved by and then freed by L. Cossinius. His Greek cognomen Anchialus (from anchialos, "near the sea") is typical of freedmen and slaves of eastern Mediterranean origin.