. t he soon became tired ofhis virtuous wife, and upon his return to theEast, he forbade her to follow him. When atlength the war broke out between Antony andAugustus, Octavia was divorced by her hus-band; but instead of resenting the insults shehad received from him, she brought up withcare his children by Fulvia and Cleopatra. Shedied 11. (App. v. 64, 67, 93, 95, 138 ;Dio Cass, xlvii. 7, xlviii. 31, li. 15. liv. 35 ; 31-87.) Octavia had five children, threeby Marcellus, a son and two daughters, andtwo by Antony,
. t he soon became tired ofhis virtuous wife, and upon his return to theEast, he forbade her to follow him. When atlength the war broke out between Antony andAugustus, Octavia was divorced by her hus-band; but instead of resenting the insults shehad received from him, she brought up withcare his children by Fulvia and Cleopatra. Shedied 11. (App. v. 64, 67, 93, 95, 138 ;Dio Cass, xlvii. 7, xlviii. 31, li. 15. liv. 35 ; 31-87.) Octavia had five children, threeby Marcellus, a son and two daughters, andtwo by Antony, both daughters. Her son, , was adopted by Augustus, and wasdestined to be his successor, but died in 23.[Marcellus, No. 9.] The descendants of hertwo daughters by Antonius successively ruledthe Roman world. The elder of them marriedL. Domitius Ahenobarbus, and became thegrandmother of the emperor Nero; the younger of them married Drusus, the brother of the em-peror Tiberius, and became the mother of theemperor Claudius, and the grandmother of the. Octavia, the sister of Augustus, and wife of M. Antonius-Obv., head of M. Antonius: M. ANTONIVS M. N. AVGVR. IMP. TER. ; rev., head of Octavia: COS. DESIGN. ITER. ET TER. IIIVIR R. P. C (Aureus, struck at Alexandria 86-34.) emperor Caligula. [Antonia.]—2. The daughterof the emperor Claudius, by his third wife, ValeriaMessallina, was born about 42. She was atfirst betrothed by Claudius to L. Silanus, whoput an end to his life, as Agrippina had destinedOctavia to be the wife of her son, afterwards-the emperor Nero. She was married to Nero-in 53, but was soon deserted by her youngand profligate husband for Poppaea living with the latter as his mistress forsome time, he resolved to recognise her as his-legal wife; and accordingly he divorced Octa-via on the alleged ground of sterility, and thenmarried Poppaea, 62. Shortly afterwardsOctavia was falsely accused of adultery, andwas banished
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