A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Ceconia, or Cesenia
CECONIA, or CESENIA,
Wife of Caligula, Emperor of Rome, was killed by Julius Lupus, A. D. 41, while weeping over the body of her murdered husband. When she saw the assassin approaching, and discovered his purpose, she calmly presented her breast to his sword, urging him to finish the tragedy his companions had begun. Her two daughters died by the same hand.