Octavia

Octavia, the sister of the Roman emperor Augustus, and wife of Mark Antony, distinguished for her beauty, her noble disposition, and womanly virtues. On the death of her first husband, Marcellus, she consented in 40 B.C. to marry Antony, to make secure the reconciliation between him and her brother; but in a few years Antony forsook her for Cleopatra. In 32 B.C. war, long inevitable, broke out between Antony and Octavian; and the former crowned his insults by sending Octavia a bill of divorcement. But no injury was too great to be forgiven by this patient Griselda of the ancient world; and after her husband's death she brought up with maternal care not only her own children by Antony, but also those of Cleopatra. She died 11 B.C.