Miarcia
4. The second wife of M. Cato Uticensis, to whom she bore many children, was the daughter of L. Marcius Philippus, consul B. C. 56. It was about the year B. C. 56 that Cato is related to have ceded her to his friend Q. Hortensius, with the approbation of her father: some remarks upon this curious tale are made elsewhere. [Vol. I. p. 648b.] She continued to live with Hortensius till the death of the latter, in B. C. 50, after which she returned to Cato, who left her behind in Rome, placing his family and property under her care, when he fled from the city with the rest of the aristocratical party on Caesar's approach in B. C. 49. (Appian, App. BC 2.99; Plut. Cat. min. 25, 39, 52; Lucan, 2.329, &c.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.