Aure'lia Orestilla
a beautiful but profligate woman, whom Catiline married. As Aurelia at first objected to marry him, because he had a grown-up son by a former marriage, Catiline is said to have killed his own offspring in order to remove this impediment to their union. (
Sal. Cat. 15,
35 ; Appian,
App. BC 2.2; comp.
Cic. Fam. 9.22.) Her daughter was betrothed to the younger Corniticius in B. C. 49. (Caelius, apud
Cic. ad Fam. 8.7.)