succeeds Lucullus to finish the Mithridatic war, and defeats the
enemy.
A.U.C. 689. Lucius Aurelius Cotta; Lucius Manlius Torquatus. Success
of Pompey in Asia.
A.U.C. 690. Lucius Julius Cæsar; Caius Martius Figulus. Pompey goes
to Syria. His conquests there.
A.U.C. 691. Marcus Tullius Cicero; Caius Antonius. Mithridates
poisons himself. Catiline conspires against the state. Cicero
discovers the conspiracy, and punishes the adherents.
A.U.C. 692. Decimus Junius Silanus; Lucius Licinius Muræna. Pompey
triumphs over the Pirates, and over Mithridates, Tigranes, and
Aristobulus.
A.U.C. 693. Marcus Puppius Piso; Marcus Valerius Messala Niger.
A.U.C. 694. Lucius Afranius; Quintus Metellus Celer. A reconciliation
between Crassus, Pompey, and Cæsar.
A.U.C. 695. Caius Julius Cæsar; Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus. Cæsar
breaks the fasces of his colleague, and is sole consul. He obtains
the government of Gaul for five years.
A.U.C. 696. ♦Lucius Calpurnius Piso; Aulus Gabinius Paulus. Cicero
banished by means of Clodius. Cato goes against Ptolemy king of
Cyprus. Successes of Cæsar in Gaul.
♦ ‘C.’ replaced with ‘Lucius’
A.U.C. 697. Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther; Quintus Cæcilius
Metellus Nepos. Cicero recalled. Cæsar’s success and victories.
A.U.C. 698. Cnæus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus; Lucius Marcius
Philippus. The triumvirate of Cæsar, Pompey, and Crassus.
A.U.C. 699. Cnæus Pompeius Magnus 2; Marcus Licinius Crassus 2.
Crassus goes against Parthia. Cæsar continued for five years more
in the administration of Gaul. His conquest of Britain.
A.U.C. 700. Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; Appius Claudius Pulcher.
Great victories of Cæsar.
A.U.C. 701. Cnæus Domitius Calvinus; Marcus Valerius Messala.
Crassus defeated and slain in Parthia. Milo kills Clodius.
A.U.C. 702. Cnæus Pompeius Magnus 3; the only consul. He afterwards
took for colleague, Quintus Cæcilius Metullus Pius Scipio. Revolts
of the Gauls crushed by Cæsar.
A.U.C. 703. Servius Sulpicius Rufus; Marcus Claudius Marcellus. Rise
of the jealousy between Cæsar and Pompey.
A.U.C. 704. Lucius Æmilius Paulus; ♦Gaius Claudius Marcellus. Cicero
proconsul of Cilicia. Increase of the differences between Cæsar
and Pompey.
♦ ‘P.’ replaced with ‘Gaius’
A.U.C. 705. Caius Claudius Marcellus; Lucius Cornelius Lentulus.
Cæsar begins the civil war. Pompey flies from Rome. Cæsar made
dictator.
A.U.C. 706. Caius Julius Cæsar 2; Publius Servilius Isauricus. Cæsar
defeats Pompey at Pharsalia Pompey murdered in Egypt. The wars of
Cæsar in Egypt.
A.U.C. 707. Quintus Fusius Calenus; Publius Vatinius. Power and
influence of Cæsar at Rome. He reduces Pontus.
A.U.C. 708. Caius Julius Cæsar 3; Marcus Æmilius Lepidus. Cæsar
defeats Pompey’s partisans in Africa, and takes Utica.
A.U.C. 709. Caius Julius Cæsar 4; Consul alone. He conquered the
partisans of Pompey in Spain, and was declared perpetual Dictator
and Imperator, &c.
A.U.C. 710. Caius Julius Cæsar 5; Marcus Antonius. Cæsar meditates a
war against Parthia. Above 600 Romans conspire against Cæsar, and
murder him in the senate-house. Antony raises himself to power.
The rise of Octavius.
A.U.C. 711. Caius Vibius Pansa; Aulus Hirtius. Antony judged a
public enemy. He joins Augustus. Triumvirate of Antony, Augustus,
and Lepidus.
A.U.C. 712. Lucius Minucius Plancus; Marcus Æmilius Lepidus 2. Great
honours paid to the memory of Julius Cæsar. Brutus and Cassius
join their forces against Augustus and Antony.
A.U.C. 713. Lucius Antonius; Publius Servilius Isauricus 2. Battle
of Philippi, and the defeat of Brutus and Cassius.
A.U.C. 714. Cnæus Domitius Calvinus; Caius Asinius Pollio. Antony
joins the son of Pompey against Augustus. The alliance of short
duration.
A.U.C. 715. Lucius Marcius Censorinus; Caius Calvisius Sabinus.
Antony marries Octavia the sister of Augustus, to strengthen their
mutual alliance.
A.U.C. 716. Appius Claudius Pulcher; Caius Norbanus Flaccus; to
whom were substituted Caius Octavianus and Quintus Pedius. Sext.
Pompey the son of Pompey the Great makes himself powerful by sea
to oppose Augustus.
A.U.C. 717. Marcus Agrippa; Lucius Caninius Gallus. Agrippa is
appointed by Augustus to oppose Sextus Pompey with a fleet. He
builds the famous harbour of Misenum.
A.U.C. 718. Lucius Gellius Poplicola; Marcus Cocceius Nerva. Agrippa
obtains a naval victory over Pompey, who delivers himself to
Antony, by whom he is put to death.
A.U.C. 719. Lucius Cornificus Nepos; Sextus Pompeius Nepos. Lentulus
removed from power by Augustus.
A.U.C. 720. Lucius Scribonius Libo; Marcus Antonius 2. Augustus
and Antony, being sole masters of the Roman empire, make another
division of the provinces. Cæsar obtains the west, and Antony the
east.
A.U.C. 721. Caius Cæsar Octavianus 2; Lucius Volcatius Tullus.
Octavia divorced by Antony, who marries Cleopatra.
A.U.C. 722. Cnæus Domitius Ahenobarbus; Caius Sosius. Dissensions
between Augustus and Antony.
A.U.C. 723. Caius Cæsar Octavianus 3; Marcus Valerius Messala
Corvinus. The battle of Actium, which, according to some authors,
happened the year of Rome 721. The end of the commonwealth.
=Consus=, a deity at Rome, who presided over councils. His temple was
covered in the Maximus Circus, to show that councils ought to be
secret and inviolable. Some suppose that it is the same as Neptunus
Equestris. Romulus instituted festivals to his honour, called
_Consualia_, during the celebration of which the Romans carried
away the Sabine women. _See:_ Consuales ludi. _Plutarch_, _Romulus_.
――_Ausonius_, ltr. 69, & Ecolgue 13, poem 23, _on Roman festivals_,
li. 19.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 9.
=Consygna=, the wife of Nicomedes king of Bithynia, torn in pieces by
dogs for her lascivious deportment. _Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 40.
=Contadesdus=, a river of Thrace. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 90.
=Contubia=, a town in Spain. _Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 17.
=Coon=, the eldest son of Antenor, killed by Agamemnon. _Homer_,
_Iliad_.
=Coos=, =Cos=, =Cea=, and =Co=, an island of the Ægean sea. _See:_ Co.
=Copæ=, a place of Greece, near the Cephisus. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 7.
=Copais lacus=, now _Limne_, a lake of Bœotia, into which the Cephisus
and other rivers empty themselves. It is famous for its excellent
eels. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 24.
=Cophas=, a son of Artabazus. _Curtius_, bk. 7, ch. 11.――――A river of
India. _Dionysius Periegetes._
=Cophontis=, a burning mountain of Bactriana. _Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 106.
=Copia=, the goddess of plenty among the Romans, represented as bearing
a horn filled with grapes, fruits, &c.
=Copillus=, a general of the Tectosagæ, taken by the Romans.
_Plutarch_, _Sulla_.
=C. Coponius=, a commander of the fleet of Rhodes, at Dyrracchium, in
the interest of Pompey. _Cicero_, bk. 1, _de Divinatione_, ch. 8.
――_Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 83.
=Coprates=, a river of Asia, falling into the Tigris. _Diodorus_,
bk. 19.
=Copreus=, a son of Pelops, who fled to Mycenæ at the death of Iphitus.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.
=Coptus= and =Coptos=, now _Kypt_, a town of Egypt, about 100 leagues
from Alexandria, on a canal which communicates with the Nile.
_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 9; bk. 6, ch. 23.――_Strabo_, bk. 16.――_Juvenal_,
satire 15, li. 28.
=Cora=, a town of Latium, on the confines of the Volsci, built by a
colony of Dardanians before the foundation of Rome. _Lucan_, bk. 7,
li. 392.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 775.
=Coracēsium= and =Coracensium=, a maritime town of Pamphylia. _Livy_,
bk. 33, ch. 20.
=Coraconāsus=, a town of Arcadia, where the Ladon falls into the
Alpheus. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 25.
=Coraletæ=, a people of Scythia. _Flaccus_, bk. 6, li. 81.
=Coralli=, a savage people of Pontus. _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 4,
poem 2, li. 37.
=Coranus=, a miser. _See:_ ♦Nascia.
♦ ‘Nascia’ not referenced
=Coras=, a brother of Catillus and Tyburtus, who fought against Æneas.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 672.
=Corax=, an ancient rhetorician of Sicily, who first demanded a salary
of his pupils. _Cicero_, _Brutus_, ch. 12; _On Oratory_, bk. 1, ch.
20.――_Aulus Gellius_, bk. 5, ch. 10.――_Quintilian_, bk. 3, ch. 1.
――――A king of Sicyon.――――A mountain of Ætolia. _Livy_, bk. 36, ch. 30.
=Coraxi=, a people of Colchis. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 5.
=Corbeus=, a Gaul, &c. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 8, ch. 6.
=Corbis= and =Orsua=, two brothers, who fought for the dominion of a
city, in the presence of Scipio, in Spain. _Livy_, bk. 28, ch. 21.
――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 9, ch. 11.
=Corbŭlo Domitius=, a prefect of Belgium, who, when governor of
Syria, routed the Parthians, destroyed Artaxata, and made Tigranes
king of Armenia. Nero, jealous of his virtues, ordered him to be
murdered; and Corbulo hearing this, fell upon his sword, exclaiming,
“I have well deserved this!” A.D. 66. His name was given to a
place (_Monumentum_) in Germany, which some suppose to be modern
_Groningen_. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 11, ch. 18.
=Corcȳra=, an island in the Ionian sea, about 12 miles from Buthrotum,
on the coast of Epirus; famous for the shipwreck of Ulysses, and the
gardens of Alcinous. It has been successively _Drepane_, _Scheria_,
and _Phæacia_, and now bears the name of _Corfu_. Some Corinthians,
with Chersicrates at their head, came to settle there, when banished
from their country, 703 years before the christian era. A colony of
Colchis had settled there 1349 years before Christ. The war which
was carried on by the Athenians against the Corcyreans, and was
called _Corcyrean_, became but a preparation for the Peloponnesian
war. The people of Corcyra were once so hated by the Cretans, that
such as were found on the island of Crete were always put to death.
_Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 512.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 5, &c.――_Lucan_,
bk. 9, li. 32.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.
――_Strabo_, bk. 6.
=Cordŭba=, now _Cordova_, a famous city of Hispania Bætica, the native
place of both the Senecas and of Lucan. _Martial_, bk. 1, ltr. 62.
――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 6.――_Cæsar_, _Alexandrine War_, ch. 57.――_Pliny_,
bk. 3, ch. 1.
=Cordyla=, a port of Pontus, supposed to give its name to a peculiar
sort of fishes caught there (_Cordylæ_). _Pliny_, bk. 9, ch. 15.
――_Martial_, bk. 13, ltr. 1.
=Core=, a daughter of Ceres, the same as Proserpine. Festivals called
_Coreia_ were instituted to her honour in Greece.
=Coressus=, a hill near Ephesus. _Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 100.
=Corĕsus=, a priest of Bacchus at Calydon in Bœotia, who was deeply
enamoured of the nymph Callirhoe, who treated him with disdain. He
complained to Bacchus, who visited the country with a pestilence.
The Calydonians were directed by the oracle to appease the god by
sacrificing Callirhoe on his altar. The nymph was led to the altar,
and Coresus, who was to sacrifice her, forgot his resentment, and
stabbed himself. Callirhoe, conscious of her ingratitude to the
love of Coresus, killed herself on the brink of a fountain, which
afterwards bore her name. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 21.
=Corētas=, a man who first gave oracles at Delphi. _Plutarch_, _de
Defectu Oraculorum_.
=Corfinium=, now _San Ferino_, the capital of the Peligni, three miles
from the Aternus, which falls into the Adriatic. _Cæsar_, _Civil
War_, bk. 1, ch. 16.――_Lucan_, bk. 2, li. 478.――_Silius Italicus_,
bk. 5, li. 522.
=Coria=, a surname of Minerva among the Arcadians. _Cicero_, _de
Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 23.
=Corinna=, a celebrated woman of Tanagra, near Thebes, disciple to
Myrtis. Her father’s name was Archelodorus. It is said that she
obtained five times a poetical prize, in which Pindar was her
competitor; but it must be acknowledged that her beauty greatly
contributed to defeat her rivals. She had composed 50 books of
epigrams and odes, of which only some few verses remain. _Propertius_,
bk. 2, poem 3.――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 22.――――A woman of Thespis,
celebrated for her beauty.――――Ovid’s mistress was also called
Corinna. _Amores_, bk. 2, poem 6.
=Corinnus=, an ancient poet in the time of the Trojan war, on which he
wrote a poem. Homer, as some suppose, took his subject from the poem
of Corinnus.
=Corinthiăcus sinus=, is now called the gulf of Lepanto.
=Corinthus=, an ancient city of Greece, now called _Corito_, situated
on the middle of the isthmus of Corinth, at the distance of about 60
stadia on either side from the sea. It was first founded by Sisyphus
son of Æolus, A.M. 2616, and received its name from Corinthus the
son of Pelops. Its original name was _Ephyre_; and it is called
_Bimaris_, because situated between the Saronicus Sinus and the
Crisseus Sinus. The inhabitants were once very powerful, and had
great influence among the Grecian states. They colonized Syracuse in
Sicily, and delivered it from the tyranny of its oppressors, by the
means of Timoleon. Corinth was totally destroyed by Lucius Mummius
the Roman consul, and burnt to the ground, 146 B.C. The riches
which the Romans found there were immense. During the conflagration,
all the metals which were in the city melted and mixed together,
and formed that valuable composition of metals which has since
been known by the name of _Corinthium Æs_. This, however, appears
improbable, especially when it is remembered that the artists of
Corinth made a mixture of copper with small quantities of gold and
silver, and so brilliant was the composition, that the appellation
of _Corinthian brass_ afterwards stamped an extraordinary value
on pieces of inferior worth. There was there a famous temple of
Venus, where lascivious women resorted, and sold their pleasures so
dear, that many of their lovers were reduced to poverty; whence the
proverb of
_Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthian_,
to show that all voluptuous indulgences are attended with much
expense. Julius Cæsar planted a colony at Corinth, and endeavoured
to raise it from its ruins, and restore it to its former grandeur.
The government of Corinth was monarchical till 779 years B.C., when
officers called Pyrtanes were instituted. The war which has received
the name of _Corinthian war_, because the battles were fought in the
neighbourhood of Corinth, was begun B.C. 395, by the combination of
the Athenians, Thebans, Corinthians, and Argives, against Lacedæmon.
Pisander and Agesilaus distinguished themselves in that war; the
former, in the first year of hostilities, was defeated with the
Lacedæmonian fleet, by Conon, near Cnidus; while a few days after
Agesilaus slaughtered 10,000 of the enemy. The most famous battles
were fought at Coronea and Leuctra; but Agesilaus refused to
besiege Corinth, lamenting that the Greeks, instead of destroying
one another, did not turn their arms against the Persian power.
_Martial_, bk. 9, ltr. 58.――_Suetonius_, _Augustus_, ch. 70.――_Livy_,
bk. 45, ch. 28.――_Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 16.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 2, li. 240.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ltr. 17, li. 36.――_Pliny_, bk. 34,
ch. 2.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 7, li. 106.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2,
ch. 1, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 8, &c.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 15.――_Cicero_,
_Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 4, ch. 14; _Against Verres_, bk. 4,
ch. 44; _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3.――――An actor at Rome. _Juvenal_,
satire 8, li. 197.
=Coriŏlānus=, the surname of Caius Martius from his victory over
Corioli, where, from a private soldier, he gained the amplest
honours. When master of the place, he accepted, as the only reward,
the surname of Coriolanus, a horse and prisoners, and his ancient
host, to whom he immediately gave his liberty. After a number
of military exploits, and many services to his country, he was
refused the consulship by the people, when his scars had for a while
influenced them in his favour. This raised his resentment; and when
the Romans had received a present of corn from Gelo king of Sicily,
Coriolanus insisted that it should be sold for money, and not be
given gratis. Upon this the tribunes raised the people against him
for his imprudent advice, and even wished him to be put to death.
This rigorous sentence was stopped by the influence of the senators,
and Coriolanus submitted to a trial. He was banished by a majority
of three tribes, and he immediately retired among the Volsci, to
Attius Tullus, his greatest enemy, from whom he met a most friendly
reception. He advised him to make war against Rome, and he marched
at the head of the Volsci as general. The approach of Coriolanus
greatly alarmed the Romans, who sent him several embassies to
reconcile him to his country, and to solicit his return. He was deaf
to all proposals, and bade them prepare for war. He pitched his camp
only at the distance of five miles from the city; and his enmity
against his country would have been fatal, had not his wife Volumnia,
and his mother Veturia, been prevailed upon by the Roman matrons to
go and appease his resentment. The meeting of Coriolanus with his
family was tender and affecting. He remained long inexorable; but
at last the tears and entreaties of a mother and a wife prevailed
over the stern and obstinate resolutions of an enemy, and Coriolanus
marched the Volsci from the neighbourhood of Rome. To show their
sense of Volumnia’s merit and patriotism, the Romans dedicated a
temple to _Female Fortune_. The behaviour of Coriolanus, however,
displeased the Volsci. He was summoned to appear before the people
of Antium; but the clamours which his enemies raised were so
prevalent, that he was murdered at the place appointed for his
trial, B.C. 488. His body was honoured with a magnificent funeral
by the Volsci, and the Roman matrons put on mourning for his loss.
Some historians say that he died in exile, in an advanced old age.
_Plutarch_, _Parallel Lives_.――_Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 22.
=Coriŏli= and =Coriolla=, a town of Latium on the borders of the
Volsci, taken by the Romans under Caius Martius, called from thence
Coriolanus. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――_Plutarch._――_Livy_, bk. 2,
ch. 33.
=Corissus=, a town of Ionia.
=Coritus.= _See:_ Corytus.
=Cormasa=, a town of Pamphylia. _Livy_, bk. 38, ch. 15.
=Cormus=, a river near Assyria. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 12, ch. 14.
=Cornēlia lex=, _de Civitate_, was enacted A.U.C. 670, by Lucius
Cornelius Sylla. It confirmed the Sulpician law, and required that
the citizens of the eight newly elected tribes should be divided
among the 35 ancient tribes.――――Another, _de Judiciis_, A.U.C. 673,
by the same. It ordained that the pretor should always observe the
same invariable method in judicial proceedings, and that the process
should not depend upon his will.――――Another, _de Sumptibus_, by the
same. It limited the expenses which generally attended funerals.
――――Another, _de Religione_, by the same, A.U.C. 677. It restored
to the college of priests the privilege of choosing the priests,
which, by the Domitian law, had been lodged in the hands of the
people.――――Another, _de Municipiis_, by the same, which revoked
all the privileges which had been some time before granted to
the several towns that had assisted Marius and Cinna in the civil
wars.――――Another, _de Magistratibus_, by the same, which gave the
power of bearing honours and being promoted before the legal age,
to those who had followed the interest of Sylla, while the sons and
partisans of his enemies, who had been proscribed, were deprived of
the privilege of standing for any office of the state.――――Another,
_de Magistratibus_, by the same, A.U.C. 673. It ordained that no
person should exercise the same office within 10 years’ distance, or
be invested with two different magistracies in one year.――――Another,
_de Magistratibus_, by the same, A.U.C. 673. It divested the tribunes
of the privilege of making laws interfering, holding assemblies,
and receiving appeals. All such as had been tribunes were incapable
of holding any other office in the state by that law.――――Another,
_de Majestate_, by the same, A.U.C. 670. It made it treason to
send an army out of a province, or engage in a war without orders,
to influence the soldiers to spare or ransom a captive general of
the enemy, to pardon the leaders of robbers or pirates, or for the
absence of a Roman citizen to a foreign court without previous leave.
The punishment was, _aquæ et ignis interdictio_.――――Another, by
the same, which gave the power to a man accused of murder, either
by poison, weapons, or false accusations, and the setting fire
to buildings, to choose whether the jury that tried him should
give their verdict _clam_ or _palam_, _vivâ voce_ or by _ballot_.
――――Another, by the same, which made it _aquæ et ignis interdictio_
to such as were guilty of forgery, concealing and altering of wills,
corruption, false accusations, and the debasing or counterfeiting
of the public coin; all such as were accessary to this offence
were deemed as guilty as the offender.――――Another, _de pecuniis
repetundis_, by which a man convicted of peculation or extortion
in the provinces was condemned to suffer the _aquæ et ignis
interdictio_.――――Another, by the same, which gave the power to such
as were sent into the provinces with any government, of retaining
their command and appointment, without a renewal of it by the senate,
as was before observed.――――Another, by the same, which ordained that
the lands of proscribed persons should be common, especially those
about Volaterræ and Fesulæ in Etruria, which Sylla divided among
his soldiers.――――Another, by Caius Cornelius, tribune of the people,
A.U.C. 686, which ordained that no person should be exempted from
any law, according to the general custom, unless 200 senators were
present in the senate; and no person thus exempted could hinder the
bill of his exemption from being carried to the people for their
concurrence.――――Another, by Nasica, A.U.C. 582, to make war against
Perseus, son of Philip king of Macedonia, if he did not give proper
satisfaction to the Roman people.
=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 Metellus Scipio, who married Pompey, after the death of her
husband Publius Crassus. 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 Achillas, and heard his
dying groans without the possibility of aiding him. She attributed
all his misfortunes to his connection with her. _Plutarch_, _Pompey_.
――――A daughter of Scipio Africanus, 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 Campanian lady made once a show of her jewels at
Cornelia’s house, and entreated her to favour her with a sight of
her own, Cornelia 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, _Cornelia 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 Oratoribus_, ch. 58.――――A vestal
virgin, buried alive in Domitian’s age, as guilty of incontinence.
_Suetonius_, _Domitian_.