Caeci'lius
3. Q.
Caecilius, a Roman knight, a friend of L. Lucullus, and the uncle of Atticus, acquired a large fortune by lending money on interest.
The old usurer was of such a crabbed temper, that no one could put up with him except his nephew Atticus, who was in consequence adopted by him in his will, and obtained from him a fortune of ten millions of sesterces.
He died in B. C. 57. (Nepos,
Att. 5;
Cic. Att. 1.1,
12,
2.19,
20,
3.20.)