Porcia Catonis
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- For the Italian commune, see Porcia (PN).
Porcia Catones (died
42 BC) was a
Roman woman, daughter of
Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis and his first wife Atilia. Porcia was married first to
Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (her father's political ally), then to
Marcus Junius Brutus, her first cousin. She committed suicide before Brutus' death in the
battle of Philippi, reputedly by swallowing live coals. In
Shakespeare's play
Julius Caesar, she is spelled
Portia and it is reported that she swallowed fire. She and Brutus had a son, who died in childhood in
43 BC.
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