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Paullus Fabius Maximus dies, possibly pressured into suicide by Augustus.

 
Victim (Person) :
  • Paullus Fabius Maximus Origin: Roman Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: upper class, Direct Consequence: death
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    Third Party (Person) :
  • Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus Augustus Origin: Roman Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Reaction: anger
  • Marcia Origin: Roman Gender: Female, Age: adult, Activity: life partner, Reaction: grief
  • Livia Drusilla Origin: Roman Gender: Female, Age: adult, Activity: life partner
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    Level :intrasocial
    intrapersonal
    Source :Cornelius Tacitus, Annals 1.4 Paste CTS-Link
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 1
    Year :A.D. 14
     
    Context :suicide
    Motivation :political
    unknown
     
    Original Text :quod Maximum uxori Marciae aperuisse, illam Liviae. gnarum id Caesari; neque multo post extincto Maximo, dubium an quaesita morte, auditos in funere eius Marciae gemitus semet incusantis quod causa exitii marito fuisset.
     
    Translation :This, it was said, Maximus had divulged to his wife Marcia, she again to Livia. All was known to Cæsar, and when Maximus soon afterwards died, by a death some thought to be self-inflicted, there were heard at his funeral wailings from Marcia, in which she reproached herself for having been the cause of her husband's destruction.
     
    Edition :Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.

    Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942.
     
     
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    Last changed :2024-02-16 : 11:05:16
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