ABSTRACT
The letters of elite Roman women are largely lost. But all the major Roman male epistolographers corresponded with women; fragments of those women’s letters are embedded in the famous letter-books of Cicero and his ilk. As a thought experiment, this chapter assembles the fragments of the letters of Cicero’s wife Terentia from Book 14 of the Ad familiares, with translations and notes. A final section discusses Terentia’s imagined letter-book in terms of epistolarity and the history of fragment-collecting in the discipline of Classics.
