person
Mucia Tertia
Mucia
also: Mucia
Half-sister of Q. Metellus Celer and Q. Metellus Nepos and third wife of Pompey the Great (married c. 79 BC, divorced 62 BC). In Fam 5.2 Cicero recalls enlisting her, on the strength of her tie to Pompey, to deter Nepos from his attack.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.12 §3 Mucia's divorce
Pompey divorced Mucia Tertia (half-sister of the Metelli Celer and Nepos) on his return from the East in 62 BC, reportedly for adultery; the divorce alienated the Metelli from him.
- Ad Familiares 5.2 §6 her connection with Pompey
Mucia, half-sister of Celer and Nepos, was Pompey's wife (necessitudo = the marriage tie) until he divorced her in 62 BC. Cicero recalls appealing to her, and to Celer's wife Clodia, to restrain the tribune Nepos.