person
Cicuta
also: Cicutae, Cicutam
A hard usurer (his name means 'hemlock'); his 'knotty tablets' are the tightest of loan-contracts, which the slippery debtor still escapes.
Reading notes
- The Satires §2.3 Cicuta's tablets
A hard usurer (his name means 'hemlock'); his 'knotty tablets' are the tightest loan-contracts.