Mortal Roman matron of the gens Aurelia Cottae; wife of Gaius Iulius Caesar III; mother of Gaius Iulius Caesar the Dictator. Per the canonical Tacitus Dialogus 28 testimony, she personally directed her son's upbringing in the old-Roman aristocratic-matron tradition (alongside Cornelia mother of the Gracchi and Atia mother of Augustus, the three canonical maternal-instruction matrons of the late Republic and early Empire). Interceded with her family connections to spare the young Caesar during Sulla's proscriptions of 81 BCE, producing Sulla's canonical "in this Caesar, there are many Mariuses" remark per Suetonius. Died in 54 BCE in the same year as her granddaughter Iulia.