Lollia (wife of Aulus Gabinius)

Lollia was an Ancient Roman noblewoman. She was the wife of Roman general Aulus Gabinius. She was also a mistress of Julius Caesar.

Lollia was a Plebeian of the gens Lollia.^[1] She may have been a daughter of Marcus Lollius Palicanus, who was tribune of the plebs in 71 BC. Lollia married Aulus Gabinius and they had the son Aulus Gabinius Sisenna together.^[2] Some time during their marriage she became a mistress of Julius Caesar.^[3] Lollia does not seem to have suffered any loss of public image or marriage issues because of the affair.^[4]

She and her husband are both mentioned in a letter from Cicero in which he implies that they both were sexually involved with the revolutionary Catiline, and that Gabinius might have pimped her out.^[5]

Lollia appears in the historical novel Respublica: A Novel of Cicero's Roman Republic by Richard Braccia. In the book it is described by another character that Gabinus won Caesar's trust by letting him have sex with Lollia.^[6] The affair is also depicted in the novel Lustrum by Robert Harris.^[7]

• List of Roman gentes
• Women in Rome

• Pompey the Great: A Political Biography
• Richard S. Williams; The Role of "Amicitia" in the Career of A. Gabinius (Cos. 58)
• Rawson, Elizabeth (1991). Roman culture and society: collected papers. Clarendon Press.