Porcia Catonis, also known simply as Porcia (Classical Latin

Classical Latin

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: PORCIA•CATONIS•FILIA, ca.

Circa

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70 BC – June 43 BC or October 42 BC) was a Roman

Roman Republic

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 woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis

Cato the Younger

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 and his first wife Atilia

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...

. She is best known for being the second wife of Marcus Junius Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus

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, the most famous of Julius Caesar's

Julius Caesar

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 assassin

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s, and for her suicide

Suicide

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, reputedly by swallowing live coals.
Porcia was born between 73 BC and 64 BC.