Scanned text contains errors. passed over the emperor Tiberius.
He did not, however, resent the slight, but allowed her funeral
to be celebrated with all the usual honours: the ancestral
images of twenty illustrious houses were carried before her bier
; " but Cassius and Brutus," says the historian, " shone before
all the others, from the fact that their statues were not seen/*
(Suet. Goes. 50 ; Macrob. Sat. ii. 2 ; Cic. ad AtL xiv. 20, xv.
11;. Tac. Ann. iii. 76".) JU'NIA CALVI'NA. -[calvina.] JU'NIA
SILA'NA. [silana.] JU'NIA TORQUA'TA. [torquata.] JU'NIA GENS,
one of the most celebrated of the Roman gentes, was in all
probability originally patrician, as we can hardly conceive that
the first consul, L. Junius Brutus, connected as he was with the
family of the Tarquins, could have been a plebeian, although the
latter hypothesis is maintained by Niebuhr. But however this may
be, it is certain that, with the exception of the first consul
and his sons, all the other members of the gens were •plebeians.
[brutus.