. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. • .Suet., Octav. 71, H4 ; Dion, Iviii. 2; Seneca, De clem. i. 9. Caligula called Livia llysses,— Ul;/.isrm stotiilutn (Suet., Cains, 23); but in Senecas o])inion (Consot. mlMnrr. 1) ulie vras femiimm npiniunh suae custoJem dilifiPnlissimnm. ^lacrobius .speaks of her(Saturn. 2 v.) a» always surrounded by grave persons; and Tacitus says (.itiii. v. 1) : Suitctittile(lomiu pritcum ail morem, comis ultra iptam antiipiis femlnis probatum, mater itnpolens, uxorfacltl». Augustus wore no parmenls bu
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. • .Suet., Octav. 71, H4 ; Dion, Iviii. 2; Seneca, De clem. i. 9. Caligula called Livia llysses,— Ul;/.isrm stotiilutn (Suet., Cains, 23); but in Senecas o])inion (Consot. mlMnrr. 1) ulie vras femiimm npiniunh suae custoJem dilifiPnlissimnm. ^lacrobius .speaks of her(Saturn. 2 v.) a» always surrounded by grave persons; and Tacitus says (.itiii. v. 1) : Suitctittile(lomiu pritcum ail morem, comis ultra iptam antiipiis femlnis probatum, mater itnpolens, uxorfacltl». Augustus wore no parmenls but those woven by his wife and daughter (Suet., ). Ovid : — Qhiip Iliierhjiirmiini, mores .Jiiiiniiis tmliendo. ... Wo miglit doubt the sincerity of the |)oet ; but Octavius took her away from Xero, says Tacitus,rupiilinr fnrmae (/Inn. v. 1). ITALY AND THE ROMAN PEOPLE. 61 is Venus, in manners Juno, says Ovid ; her busts do not contra-dict the poets eulogies, which Tacitus repeats. By Claudius Nero,her first liusband, she had two sons, — Tiberius and Drusus ; but she. ANTOXIA, WIFK OF DRUSUS.^ THE ELDER AGRIPPINA. bore none to the Emperor. While Julia, the daughter of Augustusand Scribonia, scandalized Rome and the court by her licentious-ness, the charming Antonia, the loving and always beloved wife ofDrusus, her mother, Octavia, whose chaste reputation was never * Statue in the Vatican, found at Tusculum. Tlni wavy style in which the liair is done isconsidered as a proof that the statue is iconic ; that is, the portrait of the person representiil(Clarac, Musée de sculpt, ph 928, No. 2,359). ?^ Statue from the Egremont collection, representing the elder Agrippina wearing theLatin diadem, in the posture and with the attributes of Ceres (Clarac, op. cit. pi. 330, No. 2,366). 62 THE TEIUilVIRATES AXD THE REVOLUTION, 79 TO 30. suUied by the slightest suspicion, and the grand-daughter ofAugustus, that noble Agrippina whom the whole Empire was des-tined to ho
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