Cornelia

[kawr-neel-yuh]

noun

flourished 2nd century b.c., Roman matron: mother of Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus.

flourished 1st century b.c., first wife of Julius Caesar 83–67?. Compare Calpurnia, Pompeia.

a female given name.

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Cornelia

highly cultured mother of the late 2nd-century BC Roman reformers Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus.

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