A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

1182 TULLIA. TULLIA.
in B.C. 174. (Liv. xxxv. 7, xxxvii. 47, 50, xxxix. B. c. 63 during the consulship of her father. At
23, 32, 40, 46, xli. 21.) the time of Cicero's exile (B. c. 58), Tullia dis6. C. SEMPRONIUS C. F. TUDITANUS, was one played a warm interest in his fate. She and her
of the ten commissioners sent to L. Mummius in husband threw themselves at the feet of the consul
B. C. 146 in order to form Southern Greece into a Piso to implore his pity on behalf of their father.
Roman province. He has been confounded by During Cicero's banishment Tullia lost her first
Drumann (Geschichte Roms, vol. iii. p. 81) with the husband: he was alive at the end of B. C. 58, but
following [No. 7], as he had been by Cicero, she was a widow when she welcomed her father
whose mistake was corrected by Atticus. This at Brundusium on his return from exile, in August
Tuditanus was the proavus or great grandfather of of the following year. She was married again in
the orator Hortensius. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 6. ~ 4, B. C. 56 to Furius Crassipes, a young man of rank
xiii. 33. ~ 3.) and large property; but she did not live with him
7. C. SEMPRONIUS C. F. C. N. TUDITANUS, the long, though the time and the reason of her dison of No. 6, was praetor B. C. 132, fourteen years vorce are alike unknown. [CRAssIPES, No. 2.]
after his father had been sent as one of the ten In B. C. 50 she was married to her third husband,
commissioners into Greece. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 30. P. Cornelius Dolabella, one of the most profligate
~ 3, xiii. 32. ~ 3.) He was consul in B. C. 129, young men of a most profligate age. Cicero was
with M'. Aquilius. On the proposition of Scipio well acquainted with the scandalous private life of
Africanus, the decision of the various disputes, his future son-in-law, for although the latter was
which arose respecting the public land in carrying still only twenty, he had been already twice dethe agrarian law of Gracchus into effect, was trans- fended by the orator in a court of justice when
ferred from the triumvirs who had been appointed accused of the most abominable crimes. But the
under the law, to the consul Tuditanus; but the patrician birth, high connections, and personal
latter, perceiving the difficulty of the cases that beauty of Dolabella, covered a multitude of sins
were brought before him, avoided giving any deci- as well in Cicero's eyes as in those of his wife and
sion by pleading that the Illyrian war compelled daughter. Dolabella had been previously married
him to leave the city. In Illyricum he carried on and divorced his wife Fabia for the purpose of
war against the Iapydes, and at first unsuccess- marrying Tullia. The marriage took place during
fully, but he afterwards gained a victory over them Cicero's absence in Cilicia. The, connection, as
chiefly through the military skill of his legate, might have been anticipated, was not a happy one.
D. Junius Brutus, who had previously earned On the breaking out of the civil war in B. c. 49,
great glory by his conquests in Spain. [BRUTUS, the husband and the father of Tullia espoused opNo. 15.] On his return to Rome, Tuditanus was posite sides. While Dolabella fought for Caesar,
allowed to celebrate a triumph over the Iapydes. and Cicero took refuge in the camp of Pompey,
(Vell. Pat. ii. 4; Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 5; Appian, Tullia remained in Italy. She was pregnant at
B. C. i. 19, Illyr. 10; Liv. Epit. 59; Fasti Capit.) the commencement of the war, and on the 19th of
Tuditanus was an orator and an historian, and in May, B. C. 49, was delivered of a seven months'
both obtained considerable distinction. Cicero says child, which was very weak, and died soon afterof him (Brut. 25): -" Cum omni vita atque victu wards. After the battle of Pharsalia, Dolabella
excultus atque expolitus, tumr ejus elegans est ha- returned to Rome, but brought no consolation to
bitum etiam orationis genus." Dionysius (i. 11) his wife. He carried on numerous intrigues with
classes him with Cato the Censor as among AoyLw- various Roman ladies; and the weight of his debts
-rbTeovs -raov'PW/taiLWv ovyypaqp'cov. His historical had become so intolerable that he caused himself
work is likewise quoted by some of the other an- to be adopted into a plebeian family, in order to
cient writers. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 76, ed. Orelli; obtain the tribuneship of the people, and thus be
Gell. vi. 4, xiii. 15; Macrob. i. 16; Krause, Vitae able to bring forward a measure for the abolition
et Frag. fistor. Roml. p. 178, feoll.) This Tudita- of debts. He was elected tribune at the end of
nus was the maternal grandfather of the orator B. c. 48, and forthwith commenced to carry his
Hortensius, since his daughter Sempronia married schemes into execution. But Antony took up
L. Hortensius, the father of the orator. arms, and Dolabella was defeated. In the midst
8. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, was the maternal of these tumults Tullia, who had been long suffergrandfather of Fulvia, the wife of Antonius the ing from ill health, set out to join her father at
triumvir. He is described by Cicero as a mad- Brundusium, which place she reached in June,
man, who was accustomed to scatter his money B. C. 47. Cicero, however, was unwilling that
among the people from the Rostra. (Cic. Phil. iii. even his own daughter should be a witness of his
6, Acad. ii. 28; Val. Max. vii. 8. ~ 1.) degradation, and hlie therefore sent her back to her
CN. TUD1'CIUS, a senator, who supported mother. Dolabelia's conduct had been so scanCluentius. (Cic. pro Clement. 70.) dalous, that a divorce would have been the proper
M. TU'GIO, mentioned by Cicero in his oration course; but this Cicero would not adopt, as he
for Balbus (c. 20) as a person well versed in the feared the anger of the dictator, and was unwilling
law relating to aqueducts. to lose a friend in Dolabella. He did not, howTUtLLIA, the name of the tqwo daughters of ever, require his intercession, for Caesar not only
Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome. [TULLIUS, pardoned him but received him as his friend, when
SERVIUs.] he landed in Italy in September (B. c. 47). Cicero
TU'LLIA, frequently called by the diminutive returned to Rome, and Dolabella was likewise
TULLIOLA, was the daughter of M. Cicero and pardoned by Caesar. In December Dolabella went
Terentia. The year of her birth is not mentioned, to Africa to fight against the Pompeian party, but
but it was probably in B. C. 79 or 78. [TERENTIA, he came back to Italy in the summer of the folNo. 1.] Her birthday was on the 5th of Sextilis lowing year (B. C. 46). Tullia and her husband
or August. She was betrothed as early as B. C. 67 now lived together again for a short time, but beto C. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, whom she married in fore Dolabella left for Spain at the end of the year,