person
Titus Agusius
T. Agusius
also: T. Agusius, Agusius
A devoted companion of Cicero who shared all the hardships, journeys, voyages, and dangers of Cicero's exile (58-57 BC) and stayed at his side until given leave to depart. Recommended as one of Cicero's household to the proconsul P. Servilius in Fam. 13.71 (46 BC); otherwise unknown.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 11.23 §2 A man called Agusius had come from Rhodes
T. Agusius, a friend who had shared Cicero's exile, here serves as a courier bringing news from the East via Rhodes; Cicero forwards his letter by a faster traveller and refers Atticus to Agusius for oral details.
- Ad Familiares 13.71 §1 T. Agusius was my companion in that most wretched time, and the partner of all my journeyings, voyages, labours, and perils
"That most wretched time" (illo miserrimo tempore) is Cicero's exile of 58-57 BC; he ranks recommendees by the depth of obligation, and Agusius's loyalty through the exile places him among the most strongly owed.