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t. NotesPage=>001 1 M. Junius Silanus, grandson of the younger Julia , was born in A.D. 14 (Pliny, NH 7, 58); on August
For example, M. Atius Balbus from Aricia, who married Caesar’s sister Julia (Suetonius, Divus Aug. 4, 1); and Hirrus was marr
uetur suam. ’ 5 Ib. 2, 1, 8. 6 Suetonius, Divus Iulius 19, 1. 7 Julia was betrothed to a certain Servilius Caepio (Suet
Pompeius had sealed the pact by taking in marriage Caesar’s daughter, Julia ; and Caesar now married a daughter of Piso. Gabin
ilched his laurels, his prestige and his partisans. With the death of Julia , and the disappearance of Crassus, slain by the P
in the fatal consulate of Metellus. Caesar was captured by Pompeius: Julia , the bride intended for Brutus, pledged the allia
were neutral. 3 The young Marcus Antonius, however, was the son of a Julia . Marriage secured the inactivity of the consulars
nobiles of the Marian faction, above, p. 19. 4 He was married to a Julia (Val. Max. 6, 7, 3). This P. Sulpicius Rufus, leg
he kings of Rome and from the immortal gods; they buried his daughter Julia with the honours of a princess; they cheered at t
Atius Balbus, a senator from the neighbouring town of Aricia, and of Julia , Caesar’s sister. 3 Hence rapid advancement and h
nd Sentius Saturninus (Appian, BC 5, 52, 217): they brought with them Julia , the mother of Antonius, who had fled to Sicily.
vianus himself, it is true, had contracted a marriage with Scribonia; Julia , his only daughter, was born in the following yea
urninus Vetulo, one of the proscribed, who, along with Libo conducted Julia , the mother of Antonius, to Greece in 40 B.C., or
od. Two years earlier the marriage of his nephew to his only daughter Julia had been solemnized in Rome. Already in 23 the yo
lier days. Augustus, they said, once thought of giving his daughter Julia in marriage to the knight Proculeius, who was com
the consul of 33 B.C. Augustus disapproved of his assiduities towards Julia , cf. Suetonius, Divus Aug. 64, 2. 4 P. Vinicius
uinctius Crispinus Sulpicianus (cos. 9 B.C.), one of the paramours of Julia ; P. Quinctilius Varus (cos. 13 B.C.), of whom Vel
factory Claudian connexion. Livia, however, gave him no children. But Julia , his daughter by Scribonia, was consigned in wedl
rinceps, to Marcellus, to Agrippa and to Tiberius in turn. To receive Julia , Tiberius was compelled to divorce his Vipsania,
he married Marcella, the niece of Augustus, and lastly the daughter, Julia . No less resplendent in its way was the fortune t
he year was out, Marcellus, the nephew of the Princeps and husband of Julia , died. The widow was consigned to Agrippa. As Mae
ts of Augustus in ensuring the succession for heirs of his own blood. Julia was to provide them. In 21 B.C. the marriage of
. Julia was to provide them. In 21 B.C. the marriage of Agrippa and Julia was solemnized. In the next year a son was born,
s fruitful union produced five children two daughters as well, namely Julia and Agrippina, and the posthumous infant Agrippa,
-favoured child (12 B.C.). Tiberius succeeded Agrippa as husband of Julia , protector of the young princes and minister of t
sober reserve of his nature was ill matched with the gay elegance of Julia to call it by no more revealing name. It was the
itic necessity of preserving appearances. 2 Whatever the behaviour of Julia , that was not the prime cause of the crisis of 6
d of the younger Antonia) and the successive consorts of his daughter Julia . Ahenobarbus held in succession the command of th
other’s prayers, but not with equal fortune. 1 The elder took to wife Julia , daughter of Julia and granddaughter of Augustus:
t not with equal fortune. 1 The elder took to wife Julia, daughter of Julia and granddaughter of Augustus: the younger was sp
lly interlocked with the descendants of Augustus through his daughter Julia , Germanicus being betrothed to Agrippina, Julia L
hands. In 2 B.C. an opportune scandal burst into publicity and ruined Julia , the daughter of the Princeps. Yet it was not of
precisely how, no evidence. 6 Above, p. 400 f. PageBook=>426 Julia was accused of immoral conduct by Augustus and su
y a trial for high treason. 6 Circumstantial reports of the revels of Julia , of the number and variety of her lovers, were pr
y be tempting, but it is not necessary, to rehabilitate her entirely. Julia may have been immodest, but she was hardly a mons
icient and damning measure of truth in one or two charges of adultery Julia was a Roman aristocrat and claimed the prerogativ
There may have been a conspiracy. Whether wanton or merely traduced, Julia was not a nonentity but a great political lady. H
ve aspired to the place of Tiberius as stepfather of the princes; and Julia may well have found the accomplished Antonius mor
e than her grim husband. But all is uncertain if Augustus struck down Julia and Antonius, it was not from tenderness for Tibe
ew his Tiberius. Still, he preferred to run no risks. The disgrace of Julia would abolish the only tie that bound Tiberius to
is wife. Augustus was unrelenting. He at once dispatched a missive to Julia , breaking off the marriage in the name of Tiberiu
pervicax adulter’, alleging a liaison that went back to the time when Julia was the wife of Agrippa. On the greater importanc
wn blood. He had surmounted scandal and conspiracy, merciless towards Julia and the five nobiles her allies; and in A.D.I, wh
es that the conspiracy of L. Aemilius Paullus, husband of the younger Julia , belongs to this year. 4 Velleius 2, 102, 3 f.:
nceps adopted Agrippa Postumus, the last surviving son of Agrippa and Julia . Of the true sentiments of Senate and People wh
sion. The way was still rough and perilous. Two obstacles remained, Julia and Agrippa Postumus, the only surviving grandchi
is enemies and perhaps to the ultimate advantage of the Roman People. Julia , it was alleged, had slipped into the wayward hab
trothed. L. Aemilius Paullus could hardly be accused of adultery with Julia , for she was his wife. Connivance in her miscondu
Aug. 19, 1) is undated. The scholiast on Juvenal 6, 158, states that Julia was relegated after her husband had been put to d
d the alliance of his ill-starred brother, the husband of the younger Julia . He served with distinction under Tiberius in Ill
to chant the regeneration of high society, the reiterated nuptials of Julia or the frugal virtues of upstarts enriched by the
the Roman religious calendar. The scandal of Augustus’ granddaughter Julia (A.D. 8) provided the excuse. There can be no que
litical harmlessness would divert attention from the real offences of Julia , her husband and her ostensible paramours, and cr
y demonstrated against the moral code and later clamoured loudly that Julia should be restored from exile. 5 Too prudent or t
B.C., the secession of Tiberius and the mysterious intrigue for which Julia was banished and Iullus Antonius killed these wer
Claudian. PageNotes. 493 1 Ann. 2, 37 f. 2 Alleged paramours of Julia , the daughter of Augustus, see above, p. 426. 3
he descendants of the Julii. Iullus Antonius, the alleged paramour of Julia , had been executed: his son, the last of the Anto
idus the Triumvir and L. Aemilius Paullus, the husband of the younger Julia . They were destined never to grasp it. The last o
., married Aemilia Lepida, the daughter of L. Aemilius Paullus and of Julia , the granddaughter of the Princeps. The union was
llia Bassa, daughter of that Rubellius Blandus who was the husband of Julia the granddaughter of Tiberius. The tie with the J
r his grandsons, 416 ff.; position after 6 B.C., 419 ff.; disgrace of Julia , 426 f.; adoption of Tiberius, 431; last years, 4
ts and relatives, 423, 426, 493. Claudius Pulcher, Ap., paramour of Julia , 426, 493. Claudius Pulcher, C. (pr. 56 B.C.), 20
rrel of Octavianus and Antonius, 258. Cornelius Scipio, paramour of Julia , 426, 493. Cornelius Scipio, P. (cos. suff. 35
Augustus, 357, 394, 412, 476. Judas, the Galilaean insurgent, 476. Julia , wife of C. Marius, 25. Julia, sister of Caesar
Judas, the Galilaean insurgent, 476. Julia, wife of C. Marius, 25. Julia , sister of Caesar, 112. Julia, wife of P. Sulpi
476. Julia, wife of C. Marius, 25. Julia, sister of Caesar, 112. Julia , wife of P. Sulpicius Rufus, 65. Julia, mother of
ulia, sister of Caesar, 112. Julia, wife of P. Sulpicius Rufus, 65. Julia , mother of M. Antonius, 64, 215. Julia, daughte
e of P. Sulpicius Rufus, 65. Julia, mother of M. Antonius, 64, 215. Julia , daughter of Caesar, 34, 36, 38, 58, 100. Julia
ntonius, 64, 215. Julia, daughter of Caesar, 34, 36, 38, 58, 100. Julia , daughter of Augustus, 358, 378; married to Marce
ius, 416; ruin of, 425 ff.; alleged enormities, 426; in exile, 494. Julia , granddaughter of Augustus, disgrace and exile of
ius Brutus, M. (pr. 44 B.C.), his family, 27, 44 f., 58; betrothed to Julia , 34; marries Claudia, 45; marries Porcia, 58; his
D. (cos. 62 B.C.), 69. Junius Silanus, D., paramour of the younger Julia , 432. Junius Silanus, L., consular candidate in 2
Quinctius Crispinus Sulpicianus, T. (cos. 9 B.C.), 377; paramour of Julia , 426. Quintilian, see Fabius. Quirinius, see Su
tr. pl. 133 B.C.), 12, 60, 494. Sempronius Gracchus, Ti., paramour of Julia , 426, 493. Senate, size of, 11, 81, 196, 349, 3
ius Nero), 229, 341, 39 f.; married to Vipsania, 247, 345; married to Julia , 416; in the Alps and in Illyricum, 390 f.; retir
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