Mucia

1. The elder daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the celebrated augur, and Laelia, daughter of C. Laelius Sapiens [Laelia, No. 1]. She married L. Licinius Crassus, the orator, and was renowned for her conversational excellence. (Cic. Brut. 58.211, de Orat. 3.12; V. Max. 8.8.1 Quint. Inst. 1.1.6.)

2. With the epithet Tertia, was the daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the augur, consul in B. C. 95. She was a cousin (soror) of Q. Metellus Celer, consul in B. C. 60, and of Q. Metellus Nepos, consul III B. C. 57. Mucia married Cn. Pompey, by whom sne had two sons, Cneius and Sextus, and a daughter, Pompeia. She was divorced by Pompey just before his return from the Mithridatic war in B. C. 62. Mucia next married M. Aemilius Scaurns, a stepson of the dictator Sulla. In B. C. 39, Mucia, at the earnest request of the Roman people, went to Sicily to mediate between her son Sex. Pompey and Augustus. She was living at the time of the battle of Actium, B. C. 31. Augustus treated her with great respect. (Ascon. in Scaur. p. 19, Orelli ; Cic. ad Fam. 5.2, ad Att. 1.12; D. C. 37.49, 48.16, 51.2, 56.38; Appian. B. C. 5.69, 72; Suet. Jul. 50; Plut. Pomp. 42; Zonar. 10.5; Hieron. in Jovin. 1.48.) Whether the Mucia mentioned by Valerius Maximus (9.1.8) bo the same person is uncertain.

was a very ancient patrician house, ascending to the earliest aera of the republic (Dionys. A. R. 5.25; Liv. 2.12). It existed in later times, however, only as a plebeian house. Its only cognomens are Cordus and Scaevola, under which are given all persons of the name of Mucius. [W.B.D]

The daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the augur, consul B.C. 95, married Cn. Pompey, by whom she had two sons, Gneius and Sextus, and a daughter, Pompeia. She was divorced by Pompey in 62. She next married M. Aemilius Scaurus, a stepson of the dictator Sulla. In 39, Mucia went to Sicily to mediate between her son Sex. Pompey and Augustus. She was living at the time of the battle of Actium, 31. Augustus treated her with great respect (Dio Cass. xxxvii. 49; lvi. 38).