A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rutilia
RUTILIA,
A Roman lady, sister of that Pub. Rutilius who suffered his unjust banishment with so much fortitude, was the wife of Marcus Aurelius Cotta; and had a son, who was a man of great merit, whom she tenderly loved, but whose death she bore with resignation.
Seneca, during his exile, wrote to his mother and exhorted her to imitate Rutilia, who, he says, followed her son Cotta into banishment; nor did she return to her country till her son came with her. Yet she bore his death, after his return, with equal courage, for she followed him to his burial without shedding a tear. She lived about B.C. 120.