Pompnia

1. Wife of P. Cornelius Scipio, consul B. C. 218, and mother of P. Scipio Africanus the elder. (Sil. Ital. 13.615; comp. Gel. 7.1.)

2. The sister of T. Pomponius Atticus, was married to Q. Cicero, the brother of the orator. The marriage was effected through the mediation of M. Cicero, the great friend of Atticus, B. C. 68, but it proved an extremely unhappy one. Pomponia seems to have been of a quarrelsome disposition, and the husband and wife were on bad terms almost from the day of their marriage. Their matrimonial disputes gave Cicero great trouble and uneasiness. His letters to Atticus frequently contain allusions to the subject. His friend naturally thought his sister ill used, and besought Cicero to interpose on her behalf; but the latter as naturally advocated the cause of his brother, who really seems to have been the least in fault. In a letter which Cicero wrote to Atticus in B. C. 51 he gives an amusing account of one of their matrimonial squabbles, of which he was an eye-witness (ad Att. 5.1). When their son, young Quintus, grew up, he endeavoured to reconcile his parents, and was encouraged in his filial task by both his uncles; but he did not meet with much success; and Q. Cicero, after leading a miserable life with his wife for almost twenty-four years, at length divorced her at the end of B. C. 45, or in the beginning of the following year. (Corn. Nep. Att. 5; Cic. Att. 1.5, 5.1, 7.1, 5, 14.10, et alibi, ad Q. Fr. 3.1, &c.)

3. The daughter of T. Pomponius Atticus. She is also called Caecilia, because her father was adopted by Q. Caecilius, and likewise Attica. She was born in B. C. 51, after Cicero had left Italy for Cilicia. She is frequently mentioned in Cicero's letters to Atticus, and seems at an early age to have given promise of future excellence. She was still quite young when she was married to M. Vipsanius Agrippa. The marriage was negotiated by M. Antony, the triumvir, probably in B. C. 36. She was afterwards suspected of improper intercourse with the grammarian Q. Caecilius Epirota, a freedman of her father, who instructed her. Her subsequent history is not known. Her husband Agrippa married Marcella in B. C. 28, and accordingly she must either have died or been divorced from her husband before that year. Her daughter Vipsania Agrippina married Tiberius, the successor of Augustus. (Cic. Att. 5.19, 6.1, 2, 5, 7.2, et alibi; Corn. Nep. Att. 12 ; Suet. Tib. 7, de Illustr. Gramm. 16.)