person
Marcus Cluvius
Cluvius
also: Cluvius of Puteoli, Cluvius Puteolanus
Banker and financier of Puteoli, an intimate friend of Cicero, with extensive lending interests in the Greek cities of Asia. Pompey was a backer of his Asian business; Cicero pressed his case repeatedly with the governors of Asia and Bithynia in 51--50 BC. Mentioned in his will Cicero among his heirs (Att. 13.46.3).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.46 §3 the entry on Cluvius's inheritance
M. Cluvius, a wealthy banker of Puteoli who made Cicero an heir; Cicero is arranging the formal acceptance of the bequest. The associated "Cluvian gardens" were among the properties Cicero hoped to gain.
- Ad Atticum 14.9 §1 the Cluvian estates
Income-bearing property Cicero had inherited under the will of M. Cluvius of Puteoli; he tracks its yield closely (cf. 14.10, where it nears a hundred thousand sesterces).
- Ad Atticum 14.10 §3 the Cluvian estate
The property inherited from M. Cluvius of Puteoli, whose yearly yield Cicero tracks; he reports it nearing a hundred thousand sesterces, with eighty thousand already skimmed off in the first year.
- Ad Atticum 14.11 §2 Cluvian estate
Income-bearing property at Puteoli that Cicero had inherited from the banker Marcus Cluvius; despite a structural collapse it was still yielding rent, here reckoned at around a hundred thousand sesterces.
- Ad Atticum 14.16 §1 the Cluvian gardens
An estate near Puteoli that Cicero inherited from the banker Marcus Cluvius, who had named Cicero among his heirs; no separate place entity is registered, so the name is bound to its eponymous former owner.
- Ad Atticum 16.6 §3 for the Cluvian property be paid by the Kalends of August
Cicero had inherited a share of the estate of M. Cluvius, a banker of Puteoli, jointly with other heirs; the co-heirs were owed a payment that he asks Atticus to settle on his behalf.