Cornificia

1. Daughter of Q. Cornificius [Cornificius, No. 2], was sought in marriage by Juventius Thalna in B. C. 45, when she was rather advanced in years and had been married several times; but she refused his offer, because his fortune was not large enough. (Cic. Att. 13.29.)

2. Sister of the poet Cornificius, is said by Hieronymus (Chron. Euseb. Ol. 184. 4) to have written some excellent epigrams, which were extant in his time.

the last surviving daughter of M. Aurelius, was put to death by Caracalla, and a very interesting account of her last moments and last words has recently come to light in the fragments of Dio Cassius discovered by Mai. (Mai, Fragment. Vatican, ii. p. 230.) [W.R]

plebeian, seems to have come originally from Rhegium. (Cic. Fam. 12.25.) No persons of this name occur till the last century of the republic; and the first who obtained any of the higher honours of the state was Q. Cornificius, praetor, B. C. 66. On coins the name is written Cornuficius, which is also the form used by Dio Cassius (48.21).