Atilia (sometimes spelt Attilia), daughter of C. Atilius Serranus and first wife of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis whom he married after his intended wife, Aemilia Lepida, married Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica.
In the words of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Life of Cato the Younger, 7:
Cato and Atilia had a son, Marcus Porcius Cato who later died in at the second Battle of Philippi, and a daughter Porcia Catonis who became the wife of ...
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Atilia (sometimes spelt Attilia), daughter of C. Atilius Serranus and first wife of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis whom he married after his intended wife, Aemilia Lepida, married Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica.
In the words of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Life of Cato the Younger, 7:
Cato and Atilia had a son, Marcus Porcius Cato who later died in at the second Battle of Philippi, and a daughter Porcia Catonis who became the wife of her cousin Marcus Junius Brutus.
Cato divorced Atilia on the grounds of adultery (she was rumoured to have been one of the many lovers of Julius Caesar), later marrying a woman named Marcia. Atilia is not mentioned again.
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