person
Terentia
also: uxor
Cicero's first wife (c. 98–c. 6 BC), of independent property; mother of Tullia and Marcus the younger; divorced 46 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 3.5 §1 Terentia
Cicero's wife, who remained at Rome to manage the family's affairs and defend its property during the exile. Her thanks to Atticus acknowledge his help to the household in Cicero's absence.
- Ad Atticum 3.19 §2 Terentia
Cicero's wife, who bore much of the burden of the exile at Rome. Her hope is one of the ties holding him to life.
- Ad Atticum 11.16 §5 advise Terentia about her will
Cicero's wife Terentia; their marriage was breaking down amid quarrels over money. He suspects, on Philotimus's report, that she is mismanaging the family finances to Tullia's detriment, and wants her will set in order.
- Ad Atticum 16.6 §3 As for Terentia
Terentia, Cicero's first wife of some thirty years, whom he had divorced around 46 BC; he was still discharging financial obligations to her, here under bond.
- Ad Atticum 16.15 §5 my debt to Terentia
Terentia, Cicero's wife of some thirty years until their divorce around 46 BC; financial settlements between them were still outstanding, and Cicero frets that he cannot even meet what he owes her.
- Ad Familiares 14.21 §1 TVLLIVS TERENTIAE SVAE S. D.
"Tullius to his Terentia, greetings" (S. D. = salutem dicit). One of the curt, formulaic notes Cicero sent his wife from Brundisium in 47 BC after Pharsalus, while stranded in Italy awaiting Caesar's pardon.