Cornēlia

, a daughter of Cinna, who was the first wife of Julius Cæsar. She became mother of Julia, Pompey’s wife, and was so affectionately loved by her husband, that at her death he pronounced a funeral oration over her body. Plutarch , Cæsar .――A daughter of Me tell us Scipio, who married Pompey, after the death of her husband Publius Cra us. She has been praised for her great virtues. When her husband left her in the bay of Alexandria, to go on shore in a small boat, she saw him stabbed by A chill as, and heard his dying groans without the po ibility of aiding him. She attributed all his misfortunes to his connection with her. Plutarch , Pompey .――A daughter of Scipio African us, who married Sempronius Gracchus, and was the mother of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. She was courted by a king; but she preferred being the wife of a Roman citizen to that of a monarch. Her virtues have been deservedly commended, as well as the wholesome principles which she inculcated in her two sons. When a Camp an i an lady made once a show of her jewels at Cornel i a’s house, and entreated her to favour her with a sight of her own, Cornel i a produced her two sons, saying, “These are the only jewels of which I can boast.” In her lifetime, a statue was raised to her, with this inscription, Cornel i a mater Gracchorum . Some of her epistles are preserved. Plutarch , Gracchus .— Juvenal , satire 6, li. 167 .— Valerius Maximus , bk. 4 , ch. 4 .— Cicero , Brutus , ch. 58 ; de Claris Or at or i bus , ch. 58 .――A vestal virgin, buried alive in Domitian’s age, as guilty of incontinence. Suet on i us , Domitian .