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Rutilia

the mother of C. Cotta, the orator, accompanied her son into exile in B. C. 91, and remained with him abroad till his return some years afterwards. [COTTA, No. 9.] She bore his death with the heroism of a genuine Roman matron. (Sen. Consol. ad Helv. 16; comp. Cic. Att. 12.20, 22.)

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.