Scribonia, known to poets as the Tattooed City, is indistinguishable in most respects from any other provincial city.
Scribonia’s public services department tries its best, but even with some thousands of the population in its direct employ, scrubbing and cleaning at the bricks and flagstones every day, they cannot keep pace with the assiduous encroachments of the Guild.
The Esotericists agree that it must be a far more elevated, purer place than grimy, dull Scribonia: a city of pure thought, of inspiration, where style is given life, unhampered by the demands of substance.
Scribonia (70/68 BC-AD 16?) was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia, the granddaughter of Pompey the Great and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
In 40 BC Scribonia was forced to divorce her husband and marry Octavian, who was younger than her by several years.
Augustus' reign is portrayed as a dictatorship and Scribonia is portrayed as a pretty, gentle, sensitive, warm and steadfast woman made a victim of her husband's cruelty but eventually makes herself a martyr for her daughter, Julia.
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Scribonia was much older than Octavian, and he never had any affection for her ; and, accordingly, he did not hesitate to divorce her in the following year, b.c.
Scribonia long survived her separation from Octavian, for in a.
SCRIBONIA GENS, plebeian, is first mentioned at the time of the second Punic war, but the first member of it who obtained the consulship was C. Scribonius Curio in b.
Scribonia, wife of Augustus, mother of his daughter Julia, was NOT Fulvia's daughter, nor Gaius Scribonius Curius' daughter.
Scribonia was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia.
He divorced her also, "unable to put up with her shrewish disposition," as he himself writes, and at once took Livia Drusilla from her husband Tiberius Nero, although she was with child at the time; and he loved and esteemed her to the end without a rival.
Scribonia valiantly stood her ground and fought against forces far stronger than her own in political battles that stretched from the end of the republic into the reign of Tiberius.
Although the marriage between Scribonia and Octavian had been politically useful, at least for Scribonia it was never satisfactory and quickly outlived its initial purpose.
While Scribonia was in voluntary exile, her granddaughter was also banished by Augustus for adultery.
The joining of these powers was known as the Second Triumverant and in it the empire was divided as Octavius was to rule the West, Antony the East and Lepidus Africa.
Scribonia was the relative of Sextus Pompey (the grandson of Pompey the Great).Regardless of the importance of this marriage, Octavius later divorced Scribonia in favor of the beautiful Livia Drusilla whom he lived with for the rest of his life.
Scribonia had given birth to her daughter with Octavius,Julia, on the day that he and Livia would be married and it is said that he snatched the baby from her mother the moment she was born.
Scribonia: I don't know the answer to your first question, Lt., I think it's up to our ship's counselor to find out, however.
Scribonia: To prevent any further damage to the ship, Lite will be locked in Jiapa's room for the remainder of the time until we reach the starbase.
Why me? Scribonia: Any information you can get about ways to manage him is of vital interest to the Federation, and more importantly, to whoever gets "saddled" with him on the starbase.
Of some note are the illuminations of the naturæ which Scribonia claimed can be pulled from beneath the ice, such as the lingua coniugis; those who have read it claim to see a subsequent influence on the
I guess she wasn't hungry that day---doh, no that's a character from our ars magica game who eats her covenants books.
Scribonia surely was getting good vis and such in payment for the books of good covenant Isrillion.
Not even his second: Scribonia, an "older woman" and already (by a previous husband) the mother of the later notorious Julia the Elder and grandmother of the even more odious Julia the Younger (Julietta), filled that role.
The events leading up to this marriage aren't clear, but it appears to have been done with the approval of her husband, but he could hardly have safely objected.
Julia, the daughter of Scribonia, stayed with Octavian and Livia.
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Julius is the father of Octavius Capp, who has also been resurrected and reunited with his wife Scribonia Capp, and they are the parents of Contessa Capp.
This is Julius' wife Calpurnia who he resurrected as well as his son Octavius and daughter in-law Scribonia.
This is Octavius and Scribonia Capp who he invited.
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On the day of her birth, her mother, Scribonia (second wife of Augustus) divorced the emperor Augustus.
He banished his own daughter to the island of Pandataria with her mother, Scribonia in 2 B.C. Julia was allowed no pleasures whatsoever on her island banishment, including even wine.
Julia's mother Scribonia also lived up until the early years of Tiberius’s reign (14-37 A.D.), when she too died in her banishment.
The Giant Leopard Moth (Hypercompe scribonia) is a moth of the family Arctiidae.
This species is sometimes known as Ecpantheria scribonia (an archaic genus name which has recently been rendered obsolete; all the species formerly known as Ecpantheria are now in Hypercompe).