Servilia was the younger full sister of Servilia Caepionis

Servilia Caepionis

Servilia Caepionis was the mistress of Julius Caesar, mother of one of Caesar's assassins, Brutus, mother-in-law of another Caesar assassin, Cassius, and half-sister of Cato the Younger.-Life:...

 and second wife of Lucullus

Lucullus

Lucius Licinius Lucullus , was an optimate politician of the late Roman Republic, closely connected with Sulla Felix...

. Lucullus married her on his return from the Third Mithridatic War

Third Mithridatic War

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, after divorcing his first wife Clodia

Clodia

Clodia, Clodia, Clodia, (born Claudia Pulchra Prima or Maior or also Quadrantaria c. 95 BC or c. 94 BC and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus"), was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica.She is not to...

. Servilia bore him a son, but like her sister, she was faithless to her husband. Lucullus, after putting up with her conduct for some time from regard to M. Cato Uticensis

Cato the Younger

Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis , commonly known as Cato the Younger to distinguish him from his great-grandfather , was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy...

, her half-brother, at length divorced her.

On the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC

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, she accompanied Cato, with her child, to Sicily

Sicily

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, and from thence to the Roman province Asia. Cato left her behind in Rhodes

Rhodes

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, while he went to join Pompey

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic...

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Sources

• Plut. Lucull. 38
• Cat. 24, 54
• Drumann, Geschichte ftoms, vol. iv. p. 174.