Tullia.
53. Tullia, Cicero's only daughter, was probably born in 79 or 78 B.C. In 66 B.C. she was betrothed to C. Calpurnius Piso Frugi,206
and married him sometime within the next three years. He died during the year of Cicero's exile.207
In 56 B.C. Tullia married Furius Crassipes.208
The match was regarded as a good one, but for reasons unknown to
us Crassipes and Tullia were soon divorced. Her next matrimonial venture was
with P. Cornelius Dolabella,209
the Caesarian politician. Their married life
proved to be a most unhappy one, and they were probably divorced towards the
close of the year 46 B.C.210
Tullia herself died in Feb., 45 B.C.,211
and her father was plunged in the deepest grief, in which his friends Caesar,
Lucceius, Sulpicius, and others sought to comfort him by letters of condolence.212
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