Lucilla




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Lucilla (Annia), daughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina Junior.



Handsome, and at first virtuous, she was married to Lucius Verus. Forsaken by him, she gave herself up to lewdness and excess. After Verus 's death, to which Lucilla is accused of having been an accessory, she espoused Claudius Pompeianus, a Roman senator; lived with Commodus as his mistress; abandoned by him she conspired against that tyrant, by whom she was exiled to Capreae, where she was shortly after put to death.

She is styled on her coins (which in every metal are more or less common), LUCILLA AVGVSTA, and as daughter of Marcus Aurelius, LVCILLA AVG M ANTONINI AVG F. The types of some of her brass medallions are of great beauty and rarity. She had children by two husbands, and her medals often make allusion to her fecundity.

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