Cittus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Cittus the banker · his slave · the slave
in the texts
Against Phormio
An Athenian banker with whom the speaker deposited the written loan contract with Phormio.
I, men of Athens, lent to this man, Phormio, twenty minae for the double voyage to Pontus and back, on the security of goods of twice that value, and deposited a contract with Cittus the banker.
Trapeziticus
Pasion's slave, said to have knowledge of the deposit, whom Pasion spirits away and then resists producing for torture.
When Pasion learned this and understood that I would now bring action openly about my property, he spirited away his slave Cittus, who had knowledge of our financial transactions.
On his arrival Cittus alleged that he was a freeman, a Milesian by birth, and that Pasion had sent him to furnish information about the money.
And when I went to him and demanded the surrender of Cittus, because I believed that this slave could furnish the clearest proof of my claim, Pasion made the most outrageous charge, that I and Menexenus had bribed and corrupted Cittus as he sat at his banking-table and received six talents of silver from him.