daughter of Scipio Africanus, was the mother of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. She was courted by a king, but the preferred being the wife of a Roman citizen to that of a monarch. Her virtues have been deservedly commended, as well as the wholesome principles she inculcated in her two sons.

When a Campanian lady made once a show of her jewels at Cornelia's house, and entreated her to favour her with a sight of her own, Cornelia produced her two sons, saying, "These are the only jewels of which I can boast."

CORNELIA Lex, de civitate, was enacted, in the year of Rome 670, by L. Corn. Sylla. It confirmed the Sulpician law, and required that the citizens of the eight newly elected tribes should be divided among the 35 ancient tribes.—Another, de judiciis, in 673, by the same. It ordained, that the praetor should always observe the same invariable method in judicial proceedings, and that the proceeds should not depend upon his will.—Another de sumptibus, by the same. It limited the expenses which generally attended funerals.—Another de religione, by the same, in 677. It restored to the college of priests the privilege of choosing the priests, which by the Domitian law had been lodged in the hands of the people.—Another, de municipiis, by the same; which revoked all the privileges which had been some time before granted to the several towns that had assisted Marius and Cinna in the civil wars.—Another de magistratibus, by the same; which gave the power of bearing honours, and being promoted before the legal age, to those who had followed the interest of Sylla; while the sons and partizans of his enemies, who had been proscribed, were deprived of the privilege of standing for any office in the state.—Another, de magistratibus, by the same, in 673. It ordained, that no person should exercise the same office within ten years distance, or be invested with two different magistracies in one year.—Another, de magistratibus, by the same, in 673. It divested the tribunes of the privilege of making laws, interfering, holding assemblies, and receiving appeals. All such as had been tribunes were incapable of holding any other office in the state by that law.—Another, de magistratibus, by the same, in 670. It made it treason to lend an army out of a province or engage in a war without orders, to influence the soldiers to spare or ransom a captive general of the enemy, to pardon the leaders of robbers or pirates, or for the absence of a Roman citizen to a foreign court without previous leave. The punishment was aquae et ignis interdictio.—Another by the same. It gave the power to a man accused of murder, either by poison, weapons, or false accusations, and the setting fire to buildings, to choose whether the jury that tried him should give their verdict clam or palam, viva voce, or by ballot. Another by the same, which made it aquae et ignis interdictio to such as were guilty of forgery, concealing and altering of wills, corruption, false accusations, and the debauching or counterfeiting of the public coin. All such as were accessory to this offence were deemed as guilty as the offender.—Another, de pecuniae repetundis; by which a man convicted of peculation or extortion in the provinces was condemned to suffer the aquae et ignis interdictio.—Another, by the same; which gave the power to such as were sent into the provinces with any government, of retaining their command and appointment without a renewal of it by the senate, as was before observed.—Another by the same; which ordained, that the lands of proscribed persons should be common, especially those about Volaterræ and Felsulæ in Etruria, which Sylla divided among his soldiers.—Another by C. Cornelius tribune... of the people, in 686. It ordained, that no person should be exempted from any law according to the general custom, unless 200 senators were present in the senate; and no person thus exempted could hinder the bill of his exemption from being carried to the people for their concurrence.—Another, by Naflia, in 582, to make war against Perseus, son of Philip king of Macedon, if he did not give proper satisfaction to the Roman people.