person
Pomponia
also: Pomponia, Pomponiam
Sister of T. Pomponius Atticus and wife of Quintus Cicero; their marriage was notoriously quarrelsome. In 56 BC she complained to Cicero of Quintus.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.10 §5 his wife is pregnant
Atticus's sister Pomponia, married to Cicero's brother Quintus; her pregnancy is offered as proof that the often-strained marriage is going well. The child is the younger Quintus.
- Ad Atticum 7.14 §3 your sister among them
Atticus's sister Pomponia was the wife of Cicero's brother Quintus; she was among the women of the family whom Cicero urged to leave Rome as people of their rank were departing the city.
- Ad Atticum 11.9 §2 Pomponia, I believe, has his seal
Pomponia, Atticus's sister, was the estranged wife of Cicero's brother Quintus; Cicero notes she keeps Quintus's signet so the broken seals on the intercepted packet cannot easily be traced to him. The remark underlines how far the brothers' bond had decayed.
- Ad Atticum 14.10 §4 indulges his mother
Pomponia, Atticus's sister and the divorced wife of Quintus Cicero the elder; young Quintus's new deference to her, after past hostility, is what so angers his father.