Livia
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Julia Augusta · his wife Livia
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman empress whose reported remark, via Dion Cassius, condemns preemptive violence.
Livia also in Dion says, that great infamy redounds to those, who by anticipation perpetrate the criminal act, which they fear.
Consolation to Marcia
Wife of Augustus (later called Julia Augusta), mother of Drusus and Tiberius, presented as the positive example of moderated grief who accepted philosophical consolation from Areus.
I do not doubt that the example of Julia Augusta, whom you cultivated as a friend, will please you more;
Octavia and Livia, the one the sister, the other the wife of Augustus, had lost their sons in youth, each with sure hope of the prince to come.
On the long journey, as she escorted the remains of her Drusus, harrowed by so many funeral pyres blazing throughout Italy—as though she lost him as many times over—yet as soon as she laid him in the tomb, she laid aside both him and her grief at once, and grieved no more than was honourable while Caesar lived, or just while Tiberius lived.