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Cossutia was a Roman woman who became engaged to Julius Caesar prior to his reaching adulthood. There has been debate among historians on whether the marriage actually occurred.
- Rome
- Possibly being the first wife of Julius Caesar
- 84 BC, Pisa
- Julius Caesar (disputed)
Learn about the three official wives of Julius Caesar: Cornelia, Pompeia, and Calpurnia. Find out why some sources mention a fourth wife, Cossutia, who may have been his fiancée before Cornelia.
Cossutia was a Roman woman who became engaged to Julius Caesar prior to his reaching adulthood. There has been debate among historians on whether the marriage actually occurred.
JULIUS CAESAR, the divine, 1 lost his father 2 when he was in the sixteenth year of his age; 3 and the year following, being nominated to the office of high-priest of Jupiter, 4 he repudiated Cossutia, who was very wealthy, although her family belonged only to the equestrian order, and to whom he had been contracted when he was a mere boy.
After 88 B.C. many Delian merchants may have migrated to Cos. Grey marble thence, Gnoli op. cit. 152, apparently post-Augustan (and Cossutia may just have been married to a man who lived there).
In the next consulate, having previously been nominated priest of Jupiter, 3 he broke his engagement with Cossutia, a lady of only equestrian rank, but very wealthy, who had been betrothed to him before he assumed the gown of manhood, and married Cornelia, daughter of that Cinna who was four times consul, by whom he afterwards had a daughter ...
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