Atilia
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Who is Atilia?
Atilia, daughter of C. Atilius Serranus and first wife of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis whom he married about 73 BC, after his intended wife, Aemilia Lepida, married Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica. She was born c. 90 BC
In the words of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Life of Cato the Younger, 7:
Cato and Atilia had a son, Marcus Porcius Cato who later died in the second Battle of Philippi, and a daughter Porcia Catonis who became the wife of her cousin Marcus Junius Brutus.
Circa 63 BC, Cato divorced Atilia on the grounds of adultery, later marrying a woman named Marcia. Atilia is not mentioned again.
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