Antonia was a daughter of Marcus Antonius the orator,The Civil Wars of Rome: Select Lives tr. with Notes by G. Long (1846) p. 196 who was the proconsul for the Roman province of Cilicia. She was abducted in Italy, during a visit to Misenum (modern Miseno), by the Cilician pirates with whom her father had so often clashed.A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women p. 24 Her freedom was obtained only on payment of a large ransom.Plutarch, Pompey 24
