Early life Through her mother, she was the younger half-sister of
Marcus Junius Brutus, she also had two older sisters
Junia Prima and
Junia Secunda as well as an older brother named
Marcus Junius Silanus.
Marriage and later life Tertia married
Gaius Cassius Longinus, they had one son, who was born in about 60-59 BC. She had a miscarriage in 44 BC. In 47 BC, it was rumored that she was
Julius Caesar's lover through her mother's arrangement. Like her mother, Tertia was allowed to outlive her husband Cassius, unmolested by the
triumvirs and
Augustus. She survived to an advanced age, dying in 22 AD, 64 years after the battle at Philippi, during the reign of the emperor
Tiberius. She had amassed a great estate in her long widowhood, and left her fortune to many prominent Romans, although excluded the emperor, which was met with criticism. Tiberius forgave the omission and still allowed a large funeral to be held in her honor, though the masks of Brutus and Cassius were to not be displayed in the procession. == Family tree ==