Marcia (wife of Cato the Younger)
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Marcia, daughter of Lucius Marcius Philippus, the stepdaughter of Atia Balba Caesonia, stepsister of Octavia the Younger and Octavian (later Augustus), and was the second wife of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis who he married following his divorce from Atilia for adultery. Marcia became the stepmother to his son Marcus Porcius Cato and his daughter Porcia Catonis, first the wife of Marcus Bibulus and later Marcus Junius Brutus.
Plutarch states that Marcia was "...a woman of reputed excellence, about whom there was the most abundant talk..." this was because not long after Cato married Marcia, a man called Quintus Hortensius sought out Porcia for marriage, however when Bibulus refused to part with her. Cato gave him Marcia instead despite the fact she was pregnant at the time. Cato remarried Marcia following Hortensius' death. They had a daughter named Porcia (not to be confused with Porcia) who probably died young.
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