[2] Finally, an elegy of Sextus Propertius takes the form of a message addressed to Paullus Aemilius Lepidus from his dead wife Cornelia.
[3] John Scheid has drawn from these three sources five definite facts about Cornelia:[4] Scheid expands on the last point, noting that Cornelia must have died before her husband had in 13 BC, for Lepidus went on to marry Claudia Marcella; she in turn married Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus after the death of her husband.
As a result, various other consular Publii Cornelii have been identified as her first husband, such as the suffect consul of 38 BC (who was later revealed to be Lucius Cornelius Lentulus), and the suffect consul of 35 BC (whom the Fasti Tauromenitani proved to be Publius Cornelius Dolabella).
[8] But with the evidence of the Fasti Tauromenitani, it would be easier to accept that the poem about Cornelia is misplaced than to fit a hypothetical Cornelius Scipio into a consular list that is complete for these years.
Her stepfather Augustus supposedly grieved her death as he found her a worthy elder sister to his daughter Julia.