Statius

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 2.18 §4 About Statius's being manumitted

  Statius, the influential slave-secretary of Cicero's brother Quintus, had been freed by Quintus. The manumission caused public scandal and private vexation, treated more fully in the next letter (2.19.1).

• Ad Atticum 2.19 §1 that Statius has been manumitted

  Quintus Cicero's freeing of his powerful slave-secretary Statius drew public comment and embarrassed Cicero, who felt his own wishes had been disregarded. The grievance carries over from the previous letter (2.18.4).

• Ad Atticum 5.1 §3 Statius

  Statius, the favoured freedman of Cicero's brother Quintus; his influence in Quintus's household was resented and is part of the friction with Pomponia recounted here.

• Ad Atticum 15.15 §1 the 110,000 sesterces which were to be looked after by Statius

  Statius, the influential freedman of Cicero's brother Quintus, here entrusted with a deposit of 110,000 sesterces; the figure is given in the Roman notation HS C(X) (sesterces times a hundred thousand).

• Ad Atticum 15.16 §1 anything has been written to you by Statius

  Statius, the trusted (and, to Cicero, over-prominent) freedman of his brother Quintus, who served as a household informant and correspondent.

• Ad Atticum 15.19 §2 Statius has written to me

  Statius, freedman of Cicero's brother Quintus, reports the younger Quintus's outburst; he serves throughout as the household's channel of information on the volatile nephew.

• Ad Atticum 15.21 §1 Statius writes

  Statius, the trusted freedman of Quintus Cicero who managed his household affairs and figures throughout the brothers' correspondence; here he is the source for the report that the nephew now wishes to live with his father.

• Ad Familiares 16.16 §2 if the loyalty of my Statius is so great a pleasure to me

  Statius, Quintus Cicero's own much-trusted freedman; Quintus reasons that if Statius gives him such pleasure, the cultivated Tiro will be worth far more to Marcus.

• Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.2 §1 Statius

  Statius was Quintus Cicero's confidential freedman, whose great influence over his patron was a source of scandal in the province of Asia. His recent manumission, Cicero argues, gave Quintus's enemies a fresh handle against him.

• Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.2 §3 so favoured a freedman or slave

  A governor who let a freedman wield open influence laid himself open to charges of being ruled by his household, a recurring Roman anxiety; hence Cicero's insistence that even an honest Statius does the reputation harm.

• Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.8 §1 Statius

  Quintus's much-trusted (and notorious) freedman, often Q.fr. correspondence's offstage figure; Cicero teases that nobody in the brothers' circle is more apt to interrupt him than Quintus or Statius.