Postu'mia
2. The wife of Ser. Sulpicius, was a busy intriguing woman, and did not bear a good character.
She is said to have been one of the mistresses of Julius Caesar (
Suet. Jul. 50), and Cicero suspected that it was her charms which drew his legatus Ponptinus from Cilicia to Rome. (
Cic. Att. 5.21.9.) Her name frequently occurs in Cicero's correspondence at the time of the civil wars (
ad Fam. 4.2,
ad Att. 10.3. A, 10.14, 12.11, &c.).