Caecilia Metella (wife of Lentulus Spinther)
Caecilia Metella was a member of the ancient Roman plebeian dynasty of the Caecilians . It is not known who her parents were. She married Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther , the son of the consul of the same name from 57 BC. She is said to have lived very dissolute and to have been the lover of Publius Cornelius Dolabella , the suffect consul from 44 BC. And son-in-law of the speaker Marcus Tullius Cicero . Her marriage to Lentulus Spinther was 45 BC. Chr. Dissolved. She later became the wife of a son of the actor Aesopus.
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Caecilius 137. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1235 f.
Remarks
- ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 11, 23, 3.
- ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 12, 52, 2 and 13, 7, 1.
- ↑ Horace , Saturae sive sermones 2, 3, 239 with the commentary by Pomponius Porphyrio .
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| SURNAME | Caecilia Metella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 45 BC Chr. And 50 |