ABSTRACT
It was a sad homecoming to Italy. For those who had stayed behind, the situation was no happier. Terentia and Tullia had spent the last year waiting for news from the war, in a Rome thinly populated by men of rank, relying on the companionship of Atticus and Pilia. Terentia had the familiar burden of keeping the family property going. Just as Terentia had been a semi-detached wife during Cicero’s exile and governorship, so now both were living apart from their husbands. Terentia, as the wife of a Pompeian, had to worry that her property might be confiscated (A 11.9/220.3, Brundisium, 3 Jan. 47). Tullia, although her husband came back safe in the autumn of 48, was to be troubled by his behaviour in Italy the following year.
