Salonia was a Roman slave, and later freedwoman who lived during the mid-2nd century BC, and who was the second wife of Cato the Elder. She was the young daughter of the slave Salonius who was an under-secretary to Cato the Elder. Following the death of his first wife, Cato began taking solace with a slave girl who secretly visited his bed.
Cato the Elder began taking solace with a slave girl named Salonia who secretly visited his bed.
It was never said whether the slave girl that visited Cato's bed was Salonia. He did marry Salonia, who was a slave, but it is not known if the last sentence of the paragraph is referring to her.