Hortensia

, a celebrated Roman lady, daughter of the orator Hortensius, whose eloquence she had inherited in the most eminent degree. When the triumvirs had obliged 14,000 women to give upon oath an account of their po e ions, to defray the expenses of the state, ♦ Hortensia undertook to plead their cause, and was so succe ful in her attempt, that 1000 of her female fellow-sufferers escaped from the avarice of the triumvirate. Valerius Maximus , bk. 8 , ch. 3 . ♦ ‘Hortensa’ replaced with ‘Hortensia’