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  • Mucia (called Mucia Tertia to distinguish her from Scaevola the Augur’s two elderly Mucias) is around thirteen now.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Apparently Pompey has written to Mucia telling her not to be in the house by the time he gets back to Rome.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • POMPEY, GNAEUS born in the same year as Cicero; the most powerful man in the Roman world; a former consul and victorious general who has already triumphed twice, he has been away from Rome fighting in the East—first against the pirates and then against Mithridates—for four years; married to Mucia, the sister of Celer and Nepos

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Pompey was greeting his guests in the atrium, playing the grand country seigneur, with his third wife, Mucia, beside him, and his son, Gnaeus—who must have been eleven by this time—and his infant daughter, Pompeia, who had just learned to walk.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Mucia was an attractive, statuesque matron of the Metellus clan, in her late twenties and obviously pregnant again.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Pompey was greeting his guests in the atrium, playing the grand country seigneur, with his third wife, Mucia, beside him, and his son, Gnaeus—who must have been eleven by this time—and his infant daughter, Pompeia, who had just learned to walk.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Mucia was an attractive, statuesque matron of the Metellus clan, in her late twenties and obviously pregnant again.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • For Mucia during his absence had dishonored his bed.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • And of course she's closely related to Scaevola the Augur's girls called Mucia Prima and Mucia Secunda-hence her given name of Mucia Tertia, even though there's fifty years in age between her and the other two.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Then Mucia came in; Julia shrank away, averted her gaze.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

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