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Pliny HN 7. 57 and The Marriage of Tiberius Gracchus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Kirsteen M. Moir
Kirsteen M. Moir
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Mommsen, writing in 1866,1 dated the marriage of Tiberius Gracchus and Cornelia to 165/4 on the basis of this passage, understanding it to mean that their twelve children came in an alternating series of boys and girls. Tiberius, with his father's praenomen, would then be either the first or second child of the marriage, and as he was born in 163/2, Mommsen concluded that the marriage must have taken place not much more than two years before that date.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 136 - 145
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1983

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