- Atilia
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 someone else.In the words of Plutarch's "
Parallel Lives , Life of Cato the Younger, 7":: [Atilia] was the first woman with whom he had sex, but not the only one, as was true of Laelius, the friend ofScipio Africanus ; Laelius, indeed, was more fortunate, since in the course of his long life he only ever made love to one woman, the wife of his youth.Cato and Atilia had a son, Marcus Porcius Cato who later died in at the second
Battle of Philippi , and a daughterPorcia Catonis who became the wife of her cousinMarcus 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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