Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi

Reading notes

• Consolation to His Mother Helvia §16 reduced

  Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus and mother of the Gracchi; she lost ten of her twelve children yet forbade mourners to blame Fortune, who had made her the Gracchi's mother.

• Consolation to Marcia §16 the mother of the Gracchi

  Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus, who buried all but a few of twelve children yet called herself happy to have borne the Gracchi.

• Octavia §908 pitiable mother

  Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, who outlived both her reforming sons; a model of the bereaved Roman matron.