Lucius’ mother Julia, daughter of the Augustus and estranged wife of Tiberius, is arrested for adultery and treason; Augustus sends her a letter in Tiberius' name declaring the marriage null and void.

Several of her supposed accomplices are exiled (including Sempronius Gracchus), or put to death (especially Iullus Antonius, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia).

It is hard to reconstruct what actually happened, but it was proved in court that she had taken part in nightly drinking parties on the Roman Forum and that Iullus Antonius was certainly her lover.

Many other men are also reported to have enjoyed her favors, but this may have been gossip.

Hesitating whether or not to execute her, Augustus decides on Julia's exile, in harsh conditions.

She is confined on an island named Pandateria (modern Ventotene), with no men in sight, forbidden even to drink wine (Dio Cassius 55.10, Suetonius, Vita Augusti 65).

The island itself measures less than 1¾ kms.

She is to be allowed no visitor unless her father has given permission and has been informed of the stature, complexion, and even of any marks or scars upon his body" Suet.

ibid.).

Scribonia, Julia's biological mother, accompanies her into exile.

Agrippina, in prison at Pandataria, protests violently.

On one occasion, Tiberius had ordered a guard to flog her, during which punishment she loses an eye.

Refusing to eat, Agrippina is force-fed but later starves herself to death, expiring on October 17, 33 CE.

Tacitus, however, leaves open the possibility that she was deprived of nourishment while in prison and her death was not voluntary.

After her death, Tiberius slanders her name and has the senate declare that her birth date was a date of bad omen.

Together with Caligula, Germanicus’s eighteen-year-old daughter, named Julia Agrippina after her mother and known to posterity as Agrippina the younger, has also escaped the purges, as have seventeen-year-old Julia Drusilla, and fifteen-year-old Julia Livilla.