Julia

, a daughter of Julius Cæsar, by Cornel i a, famous for her personal charms and for her virtues. She married Cornel i us Cæpio, whom her father obliged her to divorce to marry Pompey the Great. Her amiable disposition more strongly cemented the friendship of the father and of the son-in-law; but her sudden death in child-bed, B.C. 53, broke all ties of intimacy and relationship, and soon produced a civil war. Plutarch. ――The mother of Marcus Antony, whose humanity is greatly celebrated in saving her brother-in-law Julius Cæsar from the cruel prosecutions of her son.――An aunt of Julius Cæsar, who married Caius Marius. Her funeral oration was publicly pronounced by her nephew.――The only daughter of the emperor August us, remarkable for her beauty, genius, and debaucheries. She was tenderly loved by her father, who gave her in marriage to Mar cell us; after whose death she was given to Agrippa, by whom she had five children. She became a second time a widow, and was married to Tiberius. Her lasciviousne and debaucheries so disgusted her husband, that he retired from the court of the emperor; and August us, informed of her lustful propensities and infamy, banished her from his sight, and confined her in a small island on the coast of Camp an i a. She was starved to death, A.D. 14, by order of Tiberius, who had succeeded to August us as emperor of Rome. Plutarch. ――A daughter of the emperor Titus, who prostituted herself to her brother Domitian.――A daughter of Julia the wife of Agrippa, who married Lepidas, and was banished for her licentiousne .――A daughter of Germanic us and A grip pin a, born in the island of Lesbos, A.D. 17. She married a senator called Marcus Vinucius, at the age of 16, and enjoyed the most unbounded favours in the court of her brother Caligula, who is accused of being her first seducer. She was banished by Caligula on suspicion of conspiracy. Claudius recalled her; but she was soon after banished by the powerful intrigues of Me alina, and put to death about the 24th year of her age. She was no stranger to the debaucheries of the age, and she prostituted herself as freely to the meanest of the people as to the nobler companions of her brother’s extravagance. Seneca, as some suppose, was banished to Corsica for having seduced her.――A celebrated woman, born in Phœnicia. She is also called Domna. She applied herself to the study of geometry and philosophy, . , and rendered herself conspicuous, as much by her mental as by her personal charms. She came to Rome, where her learning recommended her to all the literati of the age. She married Septimius Severus, who, 20 years after this matrimonial connection, was invested with the imperial purple. Severus was guided by the prudence and advice of Julia, but he was blind to her foibles, and often punished with the greatest severity those vices which were enormous in the empre . She is even said to have conspired against the emperor, but she resolved to blot out, by patronizing literature, the spots which her debauchery and extravagance had rendered indelible in the eyes of virtue. Her influence, after the death of Severus, was for some time productive of tranquillity and cordial union between his two sons and succe ors. Geta at last, however, fell a sacrifice to his brother Car a call a, and Julia was even wounded in the arm while she attempted to screen her favourite son from his brother’s dagger. According to some, Julia committed incest with her son Car a call a, and publicly married him. She starved herself when her ambitious views were defeated by Macrinus, who aspired to the empire in preference to her, after the death of Car a call a.――A town of Gallia Togata.