Volumnia Cytheris

[2] She had relationships with Brutus and Mark Antony,[3] which attracted a lot of attention in contemporary ancient Rome.

She is mentioned as the companion of her aristocratic lovers[4] in social occasions when the presence of a courtesan was otherwise not common, and considered shocking.

Cicero's letters recount how embarrassed he was to go to a party that she also attended, and how offensive it was for Mark Antony to give her a place of dignity in his litter:[5][6]"The tribune of the people was borne along in a chariot, lictors crowned with laurel preceded him; among whom, on an open litter, was carried an actress; whom honourable men, citizens of the different municipalities, coming out from their towns under compulsion to meet him, saluted not by the name by which she was well known on the stage, but by that of Volumnia.

A car followed full of pimps; then a lot of debauched companions; and then his mother, utterly neglected, followed the mistress of her profligate son, as if she had been her daughter-in-law.

[5] Her rejection of Cornelius Gallus reportedly provided the theme for Virgil's tenth Eclogue.