Terentia
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero's wife of thirty years, divorced in 46 BC.
In 46 bc he divorced his wife Terentia, to whom he had been married for thirty years and married the young and wealthy Publilia in order to relieve himself from financial difficulties;
On Providence
Terentia, Maecenas's wife, referenced as the most degraded implied preference in the rhetorical comparison of fates.
Or if there be anyone who dares to say that he would rather have been born Maecenas than Regulus, that same man—though he hold his tongue—would rather have been born Terentia!