Lucilla
A daughter of the emperor Marcus Aurelius and of Faustina, born A.D. 146. At the age of seventeen she was given in marriage to Lucius Verus, at that time commanding the Roman armies in Syria. Verus came as far as Ephesus to meet her, and the union was celebrated in that city, but, habituated to debauchery, Verus soon relapsed into his former mode of life; and Lucilla, finding herself neglected, took a woman's revenge, and entered on a career of similar licentiousness. Returning subsequently with her husband to Rome, she caused him to be poisoned there; and afterwards, in accordance with her father's directions, contracted a second marriage with Claudius Pompeianus, an aged senator, of great merit and probity. Her licentious conduct, however, underwent no change, and she was banished to the island of Capreae by her brother Commodus, against whom she had formed a conspiracy. Not long after, Commodus sent a centurion to her place of exile, who put her to death, in the thirty-eighth year of her age, A.D. 184 (Dio Cass. lxxi. 1; lxxii. 4; Aurel. 7).