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.
” After this he showed her the son who was still safe;
Livia had lost her son Drusus, who would have been a great prince and was already a great general;
I do not doubt that the example of Julia Augusta, whom you cultivated as a friend, will please you more;