a celebrated Roman lady, the younger daughter of Scipio Africanus the elder, and mother of the two tribunes Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. On the death of her husband she was left with twelve children, and refused even the solicitations of Ptolemy to make her his queen. The rest of her children dying in infancy, she became the more devoted to her only daughter Cornelia (afterwards the wife of Scipio Africanus the younger), and to her two sons. She is said to have presented these sons to a Campanian lady, who displayed her ornaments and asked a sight of her jewels in return, "as the only jewels of which she could boast." After the murder of Caius she retired to Misenum, where she devoted herself to literature and domestic pursuits. After her death a statue was erected to her memory, bearing this inscription—"Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi."