Pompeia Sulla (1st century BC), second wife of Julius Caesar, was the daughter of Quintus Pompeius Rufus, a former consul, and Cornelia, daughter of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Sylla). She was a beautiful and charming woman, but perhaps not the smartest.
Caesar married her in 68 BC. J.-C., after having exercised the functions of quaestor in Hispania, his first wife Cornélia having died the previous year[1]. Caesar was Caius Marius' nephew while Cornelia was Lucius Cornelius Cinna's daughter. However, Marius and Cinna, leaders of the Populares, had been defeated during the first (-88 to -87) and the second (-82 to -81) civil wars opposing them to Sylla. Caesar's marriage to a granddaughter of Sylla, who had nevertheless proscribed him in his youth, perhaps marks his willingness to accept the new Roman political situation.
In 63 BC. BC, Caesar was elected pontifex maximus, that is to say high priest of the Roman religion, which gave him the right to reside in the Regia, the official residence on the Via Sacra[2]. In this house Pompeia hosted the festival of the Bona Dea ("the good goddess"), which no man was allowed to attend. Yet a young patrician, Clodius Pulcher, managed to get in, disguised as a woman, apparently with the aim of seducing Pompeia. He was unmasked and prosecuted for desecration. Caesar could bring no evidence against Clodius at his trial, and the gallant was acquitted. None the less Caesar divorced Pompeia, saying, "My wife has no right even to be suspected."
This quote from Caesar has remained famous in the following form :"Caesar's wife must not be suspected".