Junia Secunda

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Junia referred to by modern historians as Junia Secunda was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the second daughter of Servilia Caepionis, the lover of Julius Caesar and sister of Cato the Younger, and Decimus Junius Silanus, the elder being Junia Prima and the younger Junia Tertia. She was the half-sister of Marcus Junius Brutus, the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins. She married Marcus Aemilius Lepidus who was a member of the Second Triumvirate, along with Mark Antony and Octavian (Later Augustus).

In 50 BC, Cicero claimed that Junia was unfaithful to Lepidus, that her her portrait being found among the chat­tels of the debauchee Vedius, and expresses his surprise at her brother and husband taking no notice of her conduct.^[1] However some have argued that it was Junia Prima, rather than Junia Secunda, who had the affair with Vedius. Junia was part of a plot to kill Octavian, formed by her son Lepidus the Younger, after the battle of Actium, however it was foiled.^[2]

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• (1)=1st husband/wife
• (2)=2nd husband/wife
• x=assassin of Caesar

Salonia (2)

Cato the Elder

Licinia (1)

Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus

Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus

Marcus Livius Drusus

Marcus Porcius Cato (2)

Livia Drusa

Quintus Servilius Caepio the Younger(1)

Marcus Livius Drusus

Atilia (1)

Cato the Younger

Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, adoptive son

Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder (1)

Servilia Caepionis

Decimus Junius Silanus (2)

Servilia the younger

Quintus Servilius Caepio

Porcia Catonis

Marcus Junius Brutus x

Junia Prima

Junia Tertia

Gaius Cassius Longinus x

Marcus Porcius Cato (II)

Junia Secunda

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)

Descendant of Pompey and Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Lepidus the Younger

Manius Aemilius Lepidus

Aemilia Lepida II

1. ^ Cic. ad Att. vi. 1
2. ^ Appian, J5. (7. iv, 50.)