Sextia

Sextia (d. AD 34) was the second wife of the rhetorician Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus. She was a member of the gens Sextia, the family whose male members used the name Sextius. They committed suicide together when Scaurus was accused of 'treason'.[1]

References
  1. Tacitus, 'Annales VI.29
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