Livia

Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – AD 29) was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julia gens in AD 14.

Quotes about Livia

Ulixem stolatum.
- Ulysses in a stola.
- Caligula, in Suetonius, Life of Gaius Caligula, 23, 2, as translated by Susan E. Wood, Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 BC – AD 68 (Leiden: Brill, 1999) p. 87
  - Ulysses in petticoats.
    - Arthur Murphy, The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, vol. 1 (London: for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793) notes, p. 512. Also used by Robert Graves in his translation of The Twelve Caesars (1957)
  - Ulysses in a frock.
    - Anthony Everitt, The First Emperor: Caesar Augustus and the Triumph of Rome (London: John Murray, 2006) ch. 21, p. 286

Postremo Livia gravis in rem publicam mater, gravis domui Caesarum noverca.
- Lastly, Livia,—as a mother, a curse to the realm; as a stepmother, a curse to the house of the Caesars.
- Tacitus, Annals, I, 10, edited and translated by John Jackson, Tacitus, vol. 3 (London: William Heinemann, 1931) pp. 263–264. Jackson's note: "Because, in the one capacity, she had borne Tiberius, and, in the other, was credited with procuring the deaths of Gaius and Lucius Caesar."

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