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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="P"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="porcia-bio-1" n="porcia_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Po'rcia</surname></persName></head><p>1. The sister of Cato Uticensis, was brought up with her brother in the house of their uncle
      M. Livius Drusus, as they lost their parents in childhood. She married L. Domitius
      Ahenobarbus, who was consul in <date when-custom="-54">B. C. 54</date>, and, like her brother, one
      of the leaders of the aristocratical party. We learn from Cicero that she was at Naples in
       <date when-custom="-49">B. C. 49</date>, when her husband was besieged at Corfinium by Caesar.
       (<bibl n="Cic. Att. 9.3">Cic. Att. 9.3</bibl>.) In the following year, <date when-custom="_48">B.
       C. 48</date>, she lost her husband, who fell in the battle of Pharsalia. She herself died
      towards the end of <date when-custom="-46">B. C. 46</date>, or the beginning of the next year, and
      her funeral panegyric was pronounced by Cicero, and likewise by M. Varro and Lollius. (Plut.
       <hi rend="ital">Cat.</hi> 1, 41; <bibl n="Cic. Att. 13.37">Cic. Att. 13.37</bibl>, <bibl n="Cic. Att. 13.48">48</bibl>.)</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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