person
Curtius Nicias of Cos
Nicias of Cos
also: Nicias Cous, Nicias of Cos
A learned grammarian and friend of Cicero, then in his company, who debated points of Latinity and Greek usage with him. Distinct from Nicias of Smyrna.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 12.26 §2 About what you write of Nicias
Nicias of Cos was a learned grammarian and literary companion of Cicero's circle. Cicero declines his company not from coolness but because his own grief makes him poor host to so delicate and fastidious a guest.
- Ad Atticum 13.9 §2 Nicias was thinking the thing settled
Curtius Nicias of Cos, a learned grammarian and friend in the circle of Cicero, Atticus, and Dolabella. Here he is a source of news about Brutus's domestic affairs.
- Ad Atticum 13.28 §3 Nicias
Nicias of Cos, a learned grammarian and friend in Cicero's circle, summoned away by Dolabella. He is Cicero's source for the gossip about Cornificia in the next section.
- Ad Atticum 13.52 §2 This from Nicias
Curtius Nicias of Cos, a learned grammarian and friend of Cicero, his source for the detail of Caesar's armed escort drawing up past Dolabella's villa.