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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2025
The third marriage of Cicero’s beloved daughter Tullia ended in divorce in 46, though she was pregnant with Dolabella’s child. She gave birth in February 45 but died of complications soon afterward (and the child also died). Cicero was devastated. Trying to write his way out of depression, he wrote a Consolation, which included, at the end, the vow to create a shrine for his daughter as a divinity. Cicero set about to find a property suitable to contain the shrine, but the project was still pending at his death. At the same time, he resumed philosophical writing, first on epistemology, on which he produced two dialogues, Catulus and Lucullus, later changed to four Academic Books with new characters and dedication to Varro. Then he went on to ethics, with On Ends, consisting of three dialogues in five books and setting out the views of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Peripatetics.
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