generally conservative views. He was also a partner of the Triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus. Upon the death of his wealthiest maternal uncle Quintus Caecilius, Atticus became his adopted son and heir, assuming the name Quintus Caecilius Pomponianus Atticus. Lucius Licinius Lucullus, despite being his personal friend, resented Atticus's receiving an inheritance he felt he was entitled to for his association with the campaign against Mithridates and as Governor of Syria. Atticus was friendly with the Liberators after the assassination of Julius Caesar but was not harmed following their defeat. According to Cornelius Nepos, he took care of Servilia after the death of her son Brutus at the Battle of Philippi. Marriage and children In his later years, he married a relative, Pilia ( – 46 BC), daughter of Pilius and a maternal granddaughter of the Triumvir Crassus. Atticus and Pilia were married in 58/56 BC, when Atticus was already 53/54 years old, and she died after 12 years of happy marriage. She bore him a daughter, Attica, who became the first wife of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. Death Atticus lived out the remainder of his life in Rome. Just after his 77th birthday he fell ill, and at first his ailment appeared minor. But after three months his health suddenly deteriorated. Deciding to accelerate the inevitable, he abstained from ingesting any nourishment, starving himself to death, and dying on the fifth day of such fasting, "which was the 31st March, in the consulship of Cn. Domitius and C. Sosius", that is in the year 32 BC. He was buried at the family tomb located at the Fifth Mile of the Appian Way. See also Quintus Caecilius Epirota Notes References Most of this information is derived from the Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae and Attalus.org Life of Atticus of Cornelius Nepos, to which biographies of Cato and Atticus (discovered in a manuscript of Cicero's letters) were added by Peter Cornerus in the reign of Theodosius I. Anthony Everitt, Cicero, Random House, 2001. Further reading F. Münzer, "Atticus als Geschichtschreiber", Hermes, 40 (1905), pp. 50–100 External links 110s BC births 32 BC deaths 1st-century BC Romans Adult adoptees Ancient Roman adoptees Ancient Roman bankers Ancient Roman equites Ancient Romans who committed suicide Atticus, Titus Pomponius Correspondents of Cicero Philosophers of Roman Italy Atticus, Titus Roman-era Epicurean philosophers Roman-era students in Athens Suicides by starvation