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Megullia Dotata
Megullia, surnamed Dotata ('richly dowered'), was an ancient Roman noblewoman.
==Life==
Megullia is one of the one hundred and six subjects of Giovanni Boccaccio’s ''On Famous Women'' (''De mulieribus claris'', 1362).〔Boccaccio, Giovanni, ''Famous Women'', translated by Virginia Brown (Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press, 2001) pp. 109-110 (ISBN 0-674-01130-9)〕 She is famous (as Boccaccio says) "more through the lavishness of her ancestors than through the worthiness of any of her own deeds. For at that time it seemed such a marvellous thing to give 50,000 bronze coins as dowry to one's husband..."〔Boccaccio, Giovanni, ''Concerning Famous Women'', translated by Guido A. Guarino (New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1963) pp. 117〕 Boccaccio used manuscripts of Valerius Maximus as his source, but they "disagree widely about the amount of money in Megullia's dowry".〔 Valerius says in his Book 4 (4.10)〔(Valerius Maximus — Liber IV )〕 that Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus wrote to the Senate from Spain asking to be replaced. He wanted to go home to build up a dowry for his daughter that just became of marrying age.〔Memorable Deeds and Sayings: One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome By Valerius Maximus translated by Henry J. Walker, P. 141, ISBN 0-87220-674-2〕 The Senate wanted Scipio to stay in command, so they consulted with the bride to be and Scipio's family and agreed on an amount that would be acceptable for a dowry of a daughter of a person of such high rank. They raised a dowry for Scipio's daughter from the treasury of 40,000 asses. Valerius compares this sum of a family fortune to those raised for "Tuccia, daughter of Caeso Quinctius" (10,000 ''asses'') and for Megullia, daughter of a consul (50,000 ''asses'') - from which the name "Dotata" (dowried) came when she entered her husband's house with this large amount.〔(translation of Valerius Maximus' Liber IV )〕 It was added to make then the name of the woman with such a large dowry that of ''Megullia Dotata''. Besides Scipio and Fabricius, the Senate raised dowries for the daughters of others they wished to keep in service if there were no family funds for a dowry, like in the case of Fabricius Luscinus.〔Titus Livy, ''History of Rome'', Vol. 3 (AD ), Book XXII〕
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