A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ilitary colonies were founded to keep northwestern Spain in subjection, ofwhich the colony of veterans, Augusta Emerita (Merida), on theGuadiana (in 25), was to be the caj^ital of Lusitania, which wasthen organized as the third Spanish province. Among the few unfulfilled wishes of Augustus was the one that hemight leave behind a son. He had, in 40, when he was twenty-three years old, married, for political reasons, Scribonia, but soon afterfell in love with the much more beautiful and younger Liv
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ilitary colonies were founded to keep northwestern Spain in subjection, ofwhich the colony of veterans, Augusta Emerita (Merida), on theGuadiana (in 25), was to be the caj^ital of Lusitania, which wasthen organized as the third Spanish province. Among the few unfulfilled wishes of Augustus was the one that hemight leave behind a son. He had, in 40, when he was twenty-three years old, married, for political reasons, Scribonia, but soon afterfell in love with the much more beautiful and younger Livia Drusilla(Fig. 9). She was descended from the great censor, Appius ClaudiusCaecus, was born 58, and, having married her cousin, Tib. ClaudiusNero, became, in 43, the mother of Tiberius. Livias charms andintellectual gifts impelled the young Octavian to divorce Scribonia,though she had just borne him Julia, his only child, and to persuadeLiviis husband to surrender his wife. The new alliance was concludedwith such haste, in 39, that three months after the marriage (in. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY. 53 38), Neros second son, Drusus, was born in Octavians house. Nerosoon died (in 34), and Octavian became the guardian of his twostep-sons. Livias beauty and grace, her blameless behavior as a wife,and high mental endowments, were not more remarkable than the wisediscretion with which she managed her husband. Yet, to his constantsorrow, she bore him no son. The contending family interests of theJulii and the Claudii, which entered the palace through this union, werenot easily harmonized; and there sprung up at the court a silent strugglethat entailed frightful consequences. It was the purpose of Augustusto settle the succession to the principate upon the Julian Claudius Marcellus was the son of his sister Octavia, born 42 or 41, by her first marriage. In 25 he was married to Julia,then fourteen years old, and at the same time adopted by the e
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