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Octavia d.11BC
Roman matron

She was the sister of Emperor Augustus, distinguished for her beauty and womanly virtues. On the death of her first husband, Marcellus (40BC), she consented to marry Mark Antony, to reconcile him and her brother, but in 32 Antony divorced her for Cleopatra. Noble, loyal and kind, she brought up Mark Antony's children by Cleopatra alongside her own.