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Augustus' daughter Julia was married to Agrippa and despite their age difference the marriage was a happy one, as far as history remembers. Agrippa was a man of wide ranging culture and abilities and Julia was a vivacious leader of the cultured noble Romans. She also understood that messing with royal progeny is treason in monarchy, so when she was asked why her two sons both looked like Agrippa when she was widely suspected of adultery, she answered that she never took on passengers unless her cart was full.

Julia was banished later when she was married to Tiberius, the second emperor, by Augustus because Julia abandoned all pretense and Tiberius was a hard soldier and able administrator but lacked the refined tact and cultured grace of Agrippa. Tiberius' familial tragedy contributed to his isolation and insane persecution in the last years of his reign.

[slibhb]

> Tiberius' familial tragedy contributed to his isolation and insane persecution in the last years of his reign.

Specifically Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce his wife, whom he loved, and commanded him to marry Julia. Suetonius hints that this led to Tiberius' descent into depravity.