# Cornelia — Dialogues character guide

> Cornelia in Dialogues by Seneca.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-i

## Who they are

Mother of the Gracchi, exemplar of Roman matronly virtue.

## In the story

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dialogues_2_se/chapters/xvi)

Cited as an example of a woman who bore the loss of her twelve children, including Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, with dignity, declaring herself happy for being their mother.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dialogues_2_se/chapters/xvi)

Cornelia is cited as a model of fortitude, having lost ten children including the Gracchi, yet forbade her friends from blaming fortune.

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