Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Julia Augusta

Also known as: Augusta · Family: Julian-Claudian dynasty · Role: empress · First appears: Annals V (1)

Annals V (1)

  • child: Tiberius “the observance of Tiberius towards his mother was ever inviolate”
  • married with Tiberius Nero “her first marriage was with Tiberius Nero”
  • married with Augustus “Octavius Caesar smitten with her beauty, snatched her from her husband; whether with or against her own inclinations, is uncertain; but with such precipitation, that, without staying for her delivery, he married her yet big with child by Tiberius”
  • parent: Augustus “adopted through her father into the Livian family; into the Julian, by Augustus”
  • younger kin: Caligula “her encomium was pronounced in public by Caligula, her grandson, afterwards Emperor”
  • protégé: Fusius “obliquely upbraiding the Consul Fusius, a man highly distinguished by the favour of Augusta”

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