Hortensia
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Hortensiae Proper-name noun: feminine nominative plural, Proper-name noun: feminine genitive singular, Proper-name noun: feminine dative singular, Proper-name noun: feminine vocative plural of Hortensia
Hortensiae Adjective: feminine nominative plural, Adjective: feminine dative singular, Adjective: feminine genitive singular, Adjective: feminine vocative plural of hortensius
1. Daughter of the orator Q. Hortensius. She partook of his eloquence, and spoke before the triumvirs in behalf of the wealthy matrons, when these were threatened with a special tax to defray the expenses of the war against Brutus and Cassius. (V. Max. 8.3.3; Quint. Inst. 1.1.6; Appian, App. BC 4.32.)
2. A sister of the orator, wife of M. Valerius Messala. Their son nearly became heir to the orator [Hortensius, No. 8]. [H.G.L]
plebeian; for we have an Hortensius as tribunus plebis [Hortensius, No. 1], and there is no evidence of any patrician families of this name. Cicero, indeed, gives the epithet of nobilis to the orator (pro Quinct. 22; cf. Plut. Cat. Ma. 25; Plin. Nat. 9, 80); but this is sufficiently accounted for by the high curule offices that had been held by several of his ancestors. The name seems to have been derived from the gardening propensities of the first person who lore it; and the surname Hortalus, borne by the great orator's son [Nos. 8 and 10], seems, as Drumann observes, to have been a kind of nickname of the orator himself. (Cic. Att. 2.25, 4.15.) [H.G.L]
The daughter of the orator Hortensius (q.v.), who inherited her father's eloquence. When the members of the Second Triumvirate had imposed a heavy tax upon the Roman matrons and no one of the other sex dared to espouse their cause, Hortensia appeared as their advocate, and made so able a speech that a large portion of the burden was removed (Val. Max. viii. 3, 3). This harangue was extant in Quintilian's time, who speaks of it with praise (Quint.i. 1, 6).