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was foreseeable and she dissociated herself from her husband Piso who committed suicide. A recently discovered senate resolution also confirms that
Munatia Plancina owed her impunity to the recommendation of Tiberius, who had been pressed by Livia to act in this way. But after the death of Livia in
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as dowry and a further 4,000,000 as personal property. His wife
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to connect his properties. Yet, in a show of clemency not unlike that of the emperor, the senate had Piso's property returned and divided equally between his two sons, on condition that his daughter
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