Livia gens

For the Roman historian Titus Livius, see Livy.
Livia Drusilla, wife of the emperor Augustus.

The gens Livia was an illustrious plebeian family at ancient Rome. The first of the Livii to obtain the consulship was Marcus Livius Denter in 302 BC, and from his time the Livii supplied the Republic with eight consuls, two censors, a dictator, and a master of the horse. Members of the gens were honoured with three triumphs. In the reign of Augustus, Livia Drusilla was Roman empress, and her son was the emperor Tiberius.[1][2]

  1. ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Tiberius", 3.
  2. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 789 ("Livia Gens").