Scribonia
Family: Roman · Role: Augustus's wife · First appears: Augustus 62
Scribonia, a Roman, became Augustus’s wife after having previously been married twice to men of consular rank and having a child by one of them. Augustus later parted from her, citing “the perverseness of her temper,” and in 62 she bore him a daughter, Julia the Elder. In 69, he divorced her after she resented the excessive influence of one of his mistresses.
Scribonia was the daughter of Libo, and she later redeemed Scribonius Aphrodisius and presented him with his freedom.
Relationship record
Life events
- Augustus married Scribonia, who had previously been married twice.(Augustus 62)
- With: Augustus
- “Soon afterwards he took to wife Scribonia, who had before been twice married to men of consular rank, and was a mother by one of them.”
- Augustus parted from Scribonia because of her perverseness of temper.(Augustus 62)
- With: Augustus
- “With her likewise he parted, being quite tired out, as he himself writes, with the perverseness of her temper;”
- Scribonia bore Augustus a daughter named Julia.(Augustus 63)
- With: Augustus Julia the Elder
- “By Scribonia he had a daughter named Julia”
- Augustus divorced Scribonia after she resented his mistress's influence.(Augustus 69)
- With: Augustus
- “that he had divorced Scribonia, for resenting too freely the excessive influence which one of his mistresses had gained over him”
- Scribonia redeemed Scribonius Aphrodisius and presented him with his freedom.(Grammarians 19)
- With: Scribonius Aphrodisius
- “was afterwards redeemed and presented with his freedom by Scribonia”
Augustus 62
- married with Augustus “Soon afterwards he took to wife Scribonia, who had before been twice married to men of consular rank, and was a mother by one of them.”
Augustus 63
- child: Julia the Elder “By Scribonia he had a daughter named Julia”
Augustus 69
- married with Augustus “that he had divorced Scribonia, for resenting too freely the excessive influence which one of his mistresses had gained over him:”
Grammarians 19
- protégé: Scribonius Aphrodisius (Scribonia redeemed Aphrodisius and granted him his freedom.) “who was afterwards redeemed and presented with his freedom by Scribonia”
- parent: Libo (Libo was Scribonia's father.) “Scribonia, the daughter of Libo who had been the wife of Augustus”
- married with Augustus (Scribonia had been Augustus's wife.) “Scribonia, the daughter of Libo who had been the wife of Augustus”
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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.