Servilia (2nd century BC)
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Servilia was the wife of Quintus Lutatius Catulus
, the consul during 102 BC. Their daughter Lutatia married the orator Quintus Hortensius
, for which reason Cicero
calls Servilia Hortensius's "socrus" or mother-in-law (Cic. Verr, ii. 8.).
Quintus Lutatius Catulus
Quintus Lutatius Catulus was consul of the Roman Republic in 102 BC, and the leading public figure of the gens Lutatia of the time. His colleague in the consulship was Gaius Marius, but the two feuded and Catulus sided with Sulla in the civil war of 88–87 BC...
, the consul during 102 BC. Their daughter Lutatia married the orator Quintus Hortensius
Quintus Hortensius
Quintus Hortensius Hortalus was a Roman orator and advocate.At the age of nineteen he made his first speech at the bar, and shortly afterwards successfully defended Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, one of Rome's dependants in the East, who had been deprived of his throne by his brother. From that time...
, for which reason Cicero
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
calls Servilia Hortensius's "socrus" or mother-in-law (Cic. Verr, ii. 8.).