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Divus Augustus

Divus Augustus Suetonius
60 He was contracted when very young to the daughter of Publius Servilius Isauricus; but upon his reconciliation with Antony after their first rupture, See cc. x. xi. xii. and xiii. the armies on both sides insisting on a family alliance between them, he married Antony's step-daughter Claudia, the daughter of Fulvia by Publius Claudius, although at that time she was scarcely marriageable; and upon a difference arising with his mother-in-law Fulvia, he divorced her untouched, and a pure virgin. Soon afterwards he took to wife Scribonia, who had before been twice married to men of consular rank,One of them was Scipio, the father of Cornelia, whose death is lamented by Propertius, iv. 12. The other is unknown. and was a mother by one of them. With her he likewise parted,A.U.C. 715 being quite tired out, as he himself writes, with the perverseness of her temper; and immediately took Livia Drusilla, though then pregnant, from her husband Tiberius Nero; and she had never any rival in his love and esteem.

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