person
Philogenes
also: Philogenes
A freedman and financial agent who handled Cicero's money and the currency-exchange (permutatio) at Ephesus in 51-50 BC and carried his correspondence to and from the province.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 5.13 §2 I also disclosed to Philogenes the account of that exchange of currency I made with you
A permutatio was a banker's transfer by which money paid in at Rome could be drawn in the provinces, sparing the risk of shipping coin. Philogenes, Cicero's freedman-agent at Ephesus, was given the reckoning of the exchange Cicero had arranged with Atticus.