L. Precius
a distinguished Roman eques, who carried on business at Panormus, when Verres was governor of Sicily (Cic. Ver. 5.62, 65). A certain Precius left some property to Cicero, which is mentioned two or three times in his correspondence under the name of Preciana hereditas (ad Fam. 14.5.2, ad Att. 6.9.2, 7.1.9); but who this Precius was is not known.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.