Marcia was the second wife of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and the daughter of Lucius Marcius Philippus. During the year 56 BC, Cato divorced her in order to give her to Quintus Hortensius in marriage. After Hortensius’s death, Marcia returned to Cato’s household, although there is some questionability regarding the occurrence of an official remarriage.
There is little information known about Marcia other than in regard to her...
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Marcia was the second wife of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and the daughter of Lucius Marcius Philippus. During the year 56 BC, Cato divorced her in order to give her to Quintus Hortensius in marriage. After Hortensius’s death, Marcia returned to Cato’s household, although there is some questionability regarding the occurrence of an official remarriage.
There is little information known about Marcia other than in regard to her marriages to Cato and Hortensius. After Cato divorced his first wife Atilia because of rumors about her infidelity, he married Marcia, ""a woman of excellent reputation, about whom there was the most abundant talk" (Plutarch). Marcia bore him two or three children; however, there is controversy about whether or not she was pregnant with this third child at the time of her second marriage to Hortensius. There is no indication that their marriage was unhappy: Plutarch relates that Marcia was concerned for Cato's safety, and Appian says that...
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