In 74 BC, Junius Brutus put up his lands for security on behalf of a relative who was brought up on charges before Verres, the praetor urbanus.[9] Brutus was still alive in 63 BC, when his wife Sempronia was caught up in the conspiracy of Catiline. It was during one of his absences from Rome that the conspirators met at his house.
Junius Brutus’ short political career is accounted for by the fact that he was more involved in the civil and legal spheres of public life rather than the political, and he was noted as a man well versed in Greek and Latin learning.[10]
Personal life
Brutus was married to a woman named Sempronia. His son was Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar (not to be confused with his distant cousin and fellow assassin Marcus Junius Brutus). Historian Ronald Syme proposed that Brutus may have been married to another woman before Sempronia, a Postumia who could have been a sister of the wife of Servius Sulpicius Rufus, he states that it is possible that this Postumia could have been Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus mother instead of Sempronia.[11]
References
^Wiseman, Timothy Peter (1974). Cinna the Poet, and Other Roman Essays. Leicester University Press. p. 153. ISBN9780718511203.
^Wiseman, Timothy Peter (1974). Cinna the Poet, and Other Roman Essays. Leicester University Press. p. 157. ISBN9780718511203.