person
Rutilia
Mother of the orator Gaius Aurelius Cotta; gathering exempla for his Consolatio in 45 BC, Cicero asks Atticus whether she outlived her son — a test case for a parent's endurance of a child's death.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 12.20 §2 And likewise Rutilia: did she die while her son Gaius Cotta was still living
Rutilia, mother of the orator Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 75 BC), was a stock example of a mother who bore her son's death with fortitude --- exactly the consolatory model Cicero needed. He asks Atticus to verify the chronology for the lost Consolatio.
- Ad Atticum 12.22 §2 About Rutilia
Rutilia, mother of the orator C. Aurelius Cotta, was a stock instance of a parent who outlived a child with composure; Cicero is gathering such exempla for his self-addressed Consolatio after Tullia's death. He presses Atticus, the antiquarian, to confirm the family facts.