Calpurnia

and Calphurnia lex , was enacted A.U.C. 604, severely to punish such as were guilty of using bribes, . Cicero , De Officiis , bk. 2 .――A daughter of Marius, sacrificed to the gods by her father, who was advised to do it, in a dream, if he wished to conquer the Cimbri. Plutarch , Parallel a minor a .――A woman who killed herself when she heard that her husband was murdered in the civil wars of Marius. Paterculus , bk. 2 , ch. 26 .――The wife of Julius Cæsar. See: Calphurnia .――A favourite of the emperor Claudius, . Tacitus , Annals .――A woman ruined by A grip pin a on account of her beauty, . Tacitus.