Marcia
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 14 anchored passages
daughter · you
in the texts
Consolation to Marcia
The addressee of the consolation, a Roman woman of noble family, daughter of Cremutius Cordus, mourning the death of her son for three years.
There remains in you, Marcia, even now a vast sadness, and it seems by now to have grown a callus—no longer that agitated grief such as it was at first, but obstinate and unyielding;
But suppose, Marcia, that more was snatched from you than any mother ever lost:
If I did not know, Marcia, that you have withdrawn as far from weakness of a woman's mind as from the other vices, and that your character is looked upon as a kind of model from antiquity, I would not dare to confront your grief—the grief to which even men willingly cling and lie brooding—nor would I have conceived the hope that, at so unfavourable a time, before so hostile a judge, on a charge so …