place
Tullianum
the Tullianum
Underground state prison near the Forum; place of execution by strangling for state criminals; site of the killing of Lentulus, Cethegus, and the other Catilinarians on the night of 5 December 63 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 15.26 §4 about that half-share of the Tullianum, speak frankly with Cascellius
The Tullianum here is a property (an estate or its income), not the prison of that name nor Cicero's daughter Tullia; Cicero is haggling over a half-share of it, with the jurist M. Cascellius acting as the other party's agent.
- Ad Atticum 15.29 §1 About the half-share of the Tullianum you will bring in Marcus Axianus
The Tullianum is a property (not Cicero's daughter Tullia nor the Roman prison); M. Axianus is the financial agent Cicero approves bringing into the negotiation over a half-share of it.