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.
Because of our disagreement the examiners refused to put the slave to torture themselves, but decreed that Pasion should surrender him to me.
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.
But Pasion here asserted that they had not been chosen as torturers, and bade them make oral interrogation of the slave if they wished any information.