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The Identity of the Chief Vestal Cornelia (PIR2 C 1481): Some Suggestions

The Identity of the Chief Vestal Cornelia (PIR2 C 1481): Some Suggestions MISCELLANEA 206 fut élu consul pour 80 !). Si je lis bien le grec, je pense qu’il est inutile d’imaginer pour lui une préture en 48, comme le fait MRR . THE IDENTITY OF THE CHIEF VESTAL CORNELIA ( PIR 2 C 1481): SOME SUGGESTIONS*) Sometime around A.D. 90 the chief Vestal Cornelia was declared guilty of incest and put to death more veteri (i.e., she was buried alive) 1 ). Several years passed and Pliny the Younger wrote that remarkable specimen of spe- cial pleading, the Epistles 4.11; he goes out of his way to present the Vestal as, at least, tamquam innocens (4.11.8) and to heap all the blame, under- standably enough, upon the emperor Domitian 2 ). Pliny names her simply Cornelia 3 ) and gives no indication whatsoever about her origins or family ties; neither does Suetonius, who, in his biography of Domitian deals with the same event, although from a quite different point of view 4 ). Now some scholars are inclined, with more or less hesitation, to identify the woman as Cornelia ex familia Cossorum who became a priestess in 62 5 ); the information comes from Tacitus, Annals 15.22.2 (we shall http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

The Identity of the Chief Vestal Cornelia (PIR2 C 1481): Some Suggestions

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Mnemosyne , Volume 52 (2): 206 – Jan 1, 1999
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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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MISCELLANEA 206 fut élu consul pour 80 !). Si je lis bien le grec, je pense qu’il est inutile d’imaginer pour lui une préture en 48, comme le fait MRR . THE IDENTITY OF THE CHIEF VESTAL CORNELIA ( PIR 2 C 1481): SOME SUGGESTIONS*) Sometime around A.D. 90 the chief Vestal Cornelia was declared guilty of incest and put to death more veteri (i.e., she was buried alive) 1 ). Several years passed and Pliny the Younger wrote that remarkable specimen of spe- cial pleading, the Epistles 4.11; he goes out of his way to present the Vestal as, at least, tamquam innocens (4.11.8) and to heap all the blame, under- standably enough, upon the emperor Domitian 2 ). Pliny names her simply Cornelia 3 ) and gives no indication whatsoever about her origins or family ties; neither does Suetonius, who, in his biography of Domitian deals with the same event, although from a quite different point of view 4 ). Now some scholars are inclined, with more or less hesitation, to identify the woman as Cornelia ex familia Cossorum who became a priestess in 62 5 ); the information comes from Tacitus, Annals 15.22.2 (we shall

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