Philotimus

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 5.19 §1 About the Atilian debt I have written to Philotimus not to dun Messalla for it

  A money matter Cicero managed at long range through Terentia's freedman-agent Philotimus, instructing him not to press M. Valerius Messalla Rufus for repayment of a debt connected with one Atilius.

• Ad Atticum 11.1 §1 the man who managed them

  Philotimus, a freedman of Terentia who handled Cicero's finances; his disappearance and mismanagement are a running anxiety of book 11. Cicero never names him here, but he is the agent who left the household accounts in disorder.

• Ad Atticum 13.33 §1 My freedman Philotimus has made the declaration

  Philotimus, a freedman of Terentia, was the long-serving manager of Cicero's household accounts and business. Here he is the agent who actually filed the registration of the debt.

• Ad Familiares 4.2 §1 Philotimus had not acted with much sense

  Philotimus was a freedman of Cicero's wife Terentia who managed the household's money and business affairs and often carried letters; Cicero frequently grumbles about his unreliability, as here, where he forwarded Servius's note instead of delivering the full message in person.

• Ad Familiares 14.18 §2 Tell Philotimus to see that the house has its ramparts and its guard

  Philotimus was Terentia's freedman and business agent, here charged with fortifying the household against the disorder of the opening civil war.

• Ad Familiares 14.24 §1 Philotimus

  A freedman of Terentia who handled the household's finances and frequently carried letters and money between Cicero and his wife. His reliability was a recurring source of friction in the couple's correspondence of these years.