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Cornelia took charge of the children and of the estate, and showed herself so discreet, so good a mother, and so magnanimous, that Tiberius was thought to have made no bad decision when he elected to die instead of such a woman. For when Ptolemy1 the king offered to share his crown with her and sought her hand in marriage, she refused him, and remained a widow.
1 Probably Ptolemy VI., surnamed Philometor, king of Egypt 181-146 B.C.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. 10.
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