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 | | Calpurnia was between fourteen and sixteen, the regular age for womens' marriage in the upper classes (and as Syme says at Roman Papers 6.230, "Marriage being so closely linked to public life, regularities are to be expected"), on marrying Caesar in 59 (thus born in 74 or 73); cf. |
 | | Twentieth) which Calpurnia C. Anthis gave her son (or which her owners gave him, since he was clearly born in slavery), reflects the custom of drinking to Epicurus' memory every twentieth of the month, mentioned also in Philodemus' epigrams. |
 | | Boyancé, however, did not consider whether the epigram tells us anything about Calpurnia herself; he was more inclined to think Anthis was Caesoninus' freedwoman, perhaps his mistress (the name Anthis suggesting that she was beautiful) and even that Ikadion might have been Calpurnia's illegitimate half-brother. |
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