- Vipsania Marcella
Vipsania Marcella Agrippina or Marcellina (born 27 BC) was the only daughter to Roman statesman
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his second wifeClaudia Marcella Major. [Suet., "Aug." 63.1.] She was the first grandchild toOctavia Minor and first great-niece to Roman EmperorAugustus .About 14 BC, she married the Roman general and politician
Publius Quinctilius Varus [This hypothesis is rebutted in Aut|M. Reinhold, Marcus Agrippa's Son-in-Law P Quinctilius Varus, in "CPh" 67 (1972), pp. 119-121.] or Marcus Aemilius LepidusAut|R. Syme, "The Augustan Aristocraty", Oxford, 1986, p. [http://books.google.com/books?id=fj8oQ4lzteIC&pg=PA125&dq=%22Vipsania+Marcella%22&hl=nl&sig=mprC4EIevv6h6kntAPXEo6_RjVU 125] .] . If she was married to the latter, then a son of her is known from a dedication inscription in the "basilica Aemilia ".Tacitus hints that she did not die in childbirth or of natural causes. He states that Agrippa's children were either killed in battle, starved to death or poisoned. [Tac., "Ann." III 19.3.] However, this may have just applied to Agrippa's children byJulia the Elder , Augustus' daughter. Tacitus makes no specific comment on Marcellina. The date of her death is uncertain.In
Robert Graves books, "I, Claudius " and "Claudius the God", Roman EmpressLivia Drusilla charged her with incest with her late father and she committed suicide.References
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