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Cornelia (lived 1st century BC)| Daughter of the Roman politician Metellus Pius Scipio and wife of Pompey. She was married first to Publius Licinius Crassus, younger son of Crassus the triumvir, and later became Pompey's third wife. She accompanied him to Egypt after he was defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus 48 BC, witnessed his murder at Alexandria and then returned to Rome, where she later received Pompey's ashes from Julius Caesar. |
Cornelia (died c. 69 BC)| Daughter of the Roman politician Lucius Cornelius Cinna, and first wife of Julius Caesar, by whom she had a daughter, Julia, Caesar's only (legitimate) child. |
Cornelia (lived 2nd century BC)| Mother of the Roman reformers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus (whom she described as ‘her jewels’) and daughter of Scipio Africanus Major who defeated the Carthaginian Hannibal 202. Her daugher Sempronia was the wife of the general Scipio Africanus Minor. |
| Cornelia was a remarkable woman, highly cultivated and regarded as a patent of womanly and motherly excellence. |
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| There are about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome. He had undergone some strange experiences in his absence; he had seen the virtual Faustina in the literal Cornelia, a spiritual Lucretia in a corporeal Phryne; he had thought of the woman taken and set in the midst as one deserving to be stoned, and of the wife of Uriah being made a queen; and he had asked himself why he had not judged Tess constructively rather than biographically, by the will rather than by the deed? It followed them when they moved from Cornelia Road to Tulse Hill. |