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Junia Calvina was a descendant of Caesar Augustus. She was married a brother of the future Emperor Aulus Vitellius, they divorce before 49 AD.
In 48 AD, she was falsely accused by Agrippina the Younger and her formal husband of open affection with her brother Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus. Calvina was banished from Italy in early 49 AD and her brother committed suicide.
After March 59 AD, when the Empress Agrippina the Younger was murdered, her son the Emperor Nero brought her back from exile. An eminent person, she is described as 'attractive, but shameless'. Calvina later died in Nero's reign. The Emperor Vespasian honoured her ashes in Augustus' Mausoleum.
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