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* Terentia, first wife of Marcus Tullius Cicero ( b. 98 BC ).
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Terentia and first
* Terentia, first wife of Cicero ( d. AD 4 ).
50 BC ), admitted to the order in 80 BC, half-sister of Terentia ( Cicero's first wife ), and a wife of Dolabella who later married her niece Tullia ; she was probably mother of the later consul of that name.
If Terentia ’ s mother married the plebeian Terentius first, then Terentia was the older sister and probably the sole inheritor of her father ’ s estate.
Cicero avoids blaming Terentia for making the match in the first place ( despite Cicero's misgivings at the time ), but it is clear that he wishes the decision had been made differently.
Terentia and wife
Suetonius attributes the loss of the imperial favour to Maecenas ' having indiscreetly revealed to Terentia, his beautiful but difficult wife, the discovery of the conspiracy in which her brother Lucius Lucinius Varro Murena was implicated, but according to Dio Cassius it was due to the emperor's relations with Terentia.
In 73 BC, he was brought to trial for adultery with the Vestal Virgin, Fabia, who was a half-sister of Cicero's wife, Terentia, but Quintus Lutatius Catulus, the principal leader of the Optimates, testified in his favor, and eventually Catiline was acquitted.
The case was prosecuted by Cicero, whose wife Terentia had hosted the previous year's rites.
Sejanus ' grandfather however maintained relations with senatorial families through his marriage with Terentia, a sister of the wife of Gaius Maecenas, who was one of Emperor Augustus ' most powerful political allies.
In the same year one of Clodius ' sisters ( presumably Lucullus ' former wife, since the other two were still married to Marcius Rex and Metellus Celer, respectively ) attempted to persuade Cicero to divorce his wife Terentia and marry her instead.
Lucullus provided numerous slaves from his household to testify to Clodius ' incest with his sister when she had been his wife, the same Claudia who had attempted to supplant Terentia as Cicero's wife.
The published letters of Cicero, for instance, reveal informally how the self-proclaimed great man interacted on the domestic front with his wife Terentia and daughter Tullia, as his speeches demonstrate through disparagement the various ways Roman women could enjoy a free-spirited sexual and social life.
Terentia ( 98 BC – 4 AD ) was the wife of the renowned orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.
In 68, Cicero and Terentia invited Cicero's brother Quintus Tullius Cicero and his new wife Pomponia ( a sister to Cicero ’ s friend Atticus ) in order to improve and solidify the marriage.
Plutarch's intentions were to show Terentia as an oppressive wife and thus to show Cicero as a weak man under the control of his wife.
Terentia and Marcus
* Marcus Licinius L. f. L. n. Lucullus, he was adopted into the gens Terentia as Marcus Terentius M. f. Varro Lucullus, consul in 73 BC, and triumphed in 71.
Terentia and Cicero
( Cicero's marriage to Terentia suffered from Terentia's persistent suspicions that Cicero was conducting an illicit affair with Clodia.
Terentia had presided in 63 at the home she shared with her husband ( and one of the two consuls for that year ), Cicero.
Terentia was around 18 years old when she married Cicero in 79 or 80 BC.
Besides the connections between Cicero and the Terentii, Terentia probably married him because Cicero was an up and coming novus homo ( new man ) with a promising political career.
While the dowry passed into the control of Cicero ’ s paterfamilias and later to Cicero himself, Terentia herself conducted the affairs of her private property with the aid of her guardian Philotimus.
In another, Cicero jokes that Terentia should sacrifice to the god that made him ill enough to expel his anxiety.
In a letter of that time, Cicero writes that Terentia is just as devoted to Atticus and his family as Cicero is. s: Letters to Atticus / 1. 5
Tullia Ciceronis, the daughter of Terentia and Cicero, was born in 78 BC.
Since Cicero could not make a match for her except through letters, Terentia was instrumental in finding a suitable husband for Tullia.
Terentia was also responsible for paying Dolabella the second installment of Tullia's dowry in 48 BC, when Cicero was having financial trouble.
Plutarch, in his Parallel Lives, tells us that Cicero was forced to testify against Clodius by Terentia, in order to prove that he was not having an affair with Clodia ( Clodius ' sister ).
The responsibility of Cicero Minor's upbringing, the welfare of the household, and the safety of Tullia also fell to Terentia.
Terentia and .
According to Anthony Everitt, Sallust later became the second husband of Cicero's ex-wife Terentia.
According to some sources, Fabia was the elder half-sister of Tullia's mother Terentia.
This made Terentia furious with the Claudia in question, and by association with the wider family.
He was most eager to forge a détente between Lucullus and Pompey, who were at loggerheads over the settlement of the eastern provinces, and wished to do Lucullus a favour in this matter, while at home Terentia demanded that he give his testimony and ensure the destruction of her subversive rival's brother and lover.
Terentia and BC
At the beginning of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in 49 BC, both Terentia and Tullia remained at the Palatine house ( which was already rebuilt ).
In the remainder of 49 and much of 48 BC, Terentia was once again responsible for managing the family's finances.
first and wife
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