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Cossutia was a woman from a modest Roman family who became engaged to Julius Caesar prior to his assuming the toga of manhood. Cossutia appealed to Caesar,〔 although the Cossuti were not even novi homines.〔Betrothed Whom Caesar Rejected'', Frederick Stanley Dunn, University of Oregon extension monitor, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1913, pp. 1-4.〕 She was recommended to Caesar by his father and it is believed that the future dictator of Rome married Cossutia after he began wearing the ''toga virilis''.〔 No children sprang from this relation. In 84 B.C., after his father's death, Caesar left Cossutia and made a marriage to Cornelia Cinna minor that was more pragmatic than the earlier relation.〔''Women of Caesar's Family'', The Classical Journal, Volume 13, 1918, pp. 502-506.〕 Cossutia perhaps died in Pisa, Italy in 84 B.C.〔 ==Scholarly disagreement== Modern sources differ, some maintaining that Caesar was never married to this woman. Among these include Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius, Napoleon III, Merrivale, James Anthony Froude, Dodge, Warde Fowler, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler, , and John Carew Rolfe.〔Discussions Caesar's First Wife'', Classical Philology, Volume 12, 1917, pg. 93.〕 The French author lists Cossutia first, then Cornelia Cinna minor, Pompeia, and Calpurnia, as wives of Caesar. Plutarch largely ignores Cossutia,〔''American Notes and Queries'', Volume 1, 1888, pg. 20.〕 but names her as one of Caesar's wives.〔''Caesar: Life of a Colossus'', Adrian Goldsworthy, Yale University Press, 2008, pg. 49.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cossutia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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