Livia in Roman Biography
Liv i-a, |Fr. Livie, le've',}- or, more fully, Livl-a
Dru-sil'la, a Roman empress, born in 58 B.C., was
first married to Tiberius Nero. After becoming the mother of
Tiberius and Drusus Germanicus, she was
married in 38 B.C. to the emperor Augustus, over whom
she acquired an ascendency which she retained until his
death. She persuaded him to adopt her son Tiberius as
his successor. By his last will he appointed Livia and
Tiberius his heirs, and directed her to assume the name
of Julia Augusta. She was a woman of superior talents.
Died in 29 a.d.
See J. D. Koehler, "Dissertatio de Livia Augusta,*' 1715;
Tacitus,
"
Annales," i. and v. ; "Nouvelle Biographic Gene>ale."
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