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Episode CXX - Adultery

Emperors of Rome

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The Fall of Julia

The emperor who came up with these laws, augustus felt compelled to carry them out and set a good example. One of the few, or two of the few examples we know of this actually happen. They concern augustuss own household in that he was forced to exile both his daughter, his only child, apartby adoption, and his granddaughter, his daughter's daughter. He even thought of putting her to death, which he doesn't have the right to unless he caught her at it,. So he said, i would rather have been phoebe's father.

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