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CORNELIA (end cent. Bc.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 167 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNELIA (end cent. Bc.)  , daughter of Scipio Africanus the Elder,
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mother of the Gracchi and of Sempronia, the wife of Scipio Africanus the Younger . On the
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death of her
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husband, refusing numerous offers of
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marriage, she devoted herself to the educatioc of her twelve children . She was so devoted to her sons Tiberius and
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Gaius that it was even asserted that she was concerned in the death of her son-in-law Scipio, who by his achievements had eclipsed the fame of the Gracchi, and was said to have approved of the
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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, Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi." After the murder of her second son Gaius she retired 'to
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Misenum, where she devoted herself. to 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 style . The genuineness of the two fragments of a letter from her to her son Gaius, printed in some
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editions of Cornelius Nepos, is disputed . See L . Mercklin, De Corneliae vita (1844), of no
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great value; J . Sorgel, Cornelia, die Mutter der Gracchen (1868), a short popular sketch .

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