of violence, would induce Caesar to forsake his wife. He was proscribed, and escaped Rome in disguise, evading capture by regularly changing his place of concealment, and on at least one occasion by bribing the commander of a patrol sent to search for Sulla's enemies. Eventually Sulla relented, following the intercession of Caesar's numerous friends and kinsmen, and Caesar returned home to Cornelia. Death After about thirteen years of marriage, Cornelia died early in her husband's quaestorship, which occurred in BC 69 or 68. Caesar was due to depart for Spain, and had already pronounced the funeral oration of his aunt, Julia, from the rostra, as was customary for elderly Roman matrons. He then gave an oration in honour of Cornelia, which was extraordinary in the case of a young woman, although it later became commonplace. Historically, Cornelia is often stated to have died in childbirth, but this is not confirmed. Notes References Bibliography Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History. Plutarchus, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). Monroe E. Deutsch, "The Women of Caesar's Family", in The Classical Journal, vol. XIII (1918). T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952). Matthias Gelzer, Caesar: Politician and Statesman, Peter Needham, translator, Oxford (1968). Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar, Life of a Colossus, Yale University Press (2006). Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd Edition, Simon Hornblower and Anthony Spawforth, Eds., Oxford University Press (2009). External links 90s BC births 69 BC deaths Cornelii Cinnae Deaths in childbirth Wives of Julius Caesar