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See also:CORNELIA (end cent. Bc.) , daughter of Scipio See also:Africanus the See also:Elder, See also:mother of the Gracchi and of Sempronia, the wife of Scipio Africanus the Younger . On the See also:death of her See also:husband, refusing numerous offers of See also:marriage, she devoted herself to the educatioc of her twelve See also:children . She was so devoted to her sons Tiberius and See also:Gaius that it was even asserted that she was concerned in the death of her son-in-See also:law Scipio, who by his achievements had eclipsed the fame of the Gracchi, and was said to have approved of the See also:murder of Tiberius . When asked to show her jewels she presented her sons, and on her death a statue was erected to her memory inscribed, See also:Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi." After the murder of her second son Gaius she retired 'to See also:Misenum, where she devoted herself. to See also:Greek and Latin literature, and to the society of men of letters . She was a highly educated woman, and her letters were celebrated for their beauty of See also:style . The genuineness of the two fragments of a See also:letter from her to her son Gaius, printed in some See also:editions of See also:Cornelius See also:Nepos, is disputed . See L . Mercklin, De Corneliae vita (1844), of no See also:great value; J . Sorgel, Cornelia, See also:die Mutter der Gracchen (1868), a See also:short popular See also:sketch . |
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