person
Sempronia
also: Sempronia
Cultivated, reckless noblewoman drawn into the conspiracy; Sallust's antithetical portrait of her balances the sketch of Catiline.
Reading notes
- The Conspiracy of Catiline §25 Sempronia
Accomplished, dissolute noblewoman of the conspiracy; her antithetical portrait deliberately mirrors the earlier sketch of Catiline.