person
Titus Ampius Menander
T. Ampius Menander
also: T. Ampium Menandrum, T. Ampius Menander, Menander
Freedman of Cicero's friend T. Ampius Balbus, described as an honest and modest man esteemed by both his patron and Cicero. Recommended to the proconsul P. Servilius in Fam. 13.70 (46 BC).
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 13.70 §1 His freedman, T. Ampius Menander
A freedman (libertus) bore his former master's nomen, here Ampius, marking him as a member of the patron's extended household; recommending such a man honoured the patron as much as the freedman.