Some five months after his daughter Claudia Julia was born, Claudius divorced Plautia on suspicion of adultery and complicity in the murder of Apronia, her brother's wife, who had been pushed from a window.

A marble statue of Claudius Drusus was installed in the Sebasteion of Aphrodisias, an augusteum temple dedicated to the cult of the divine emperors and their family; its inscribed base was uncovered during archaeological excavations there in the late twentieth century.

[1][2] In AD 20 Sejanus was reaching the height of his power, and the birth of his daughter offered an opportunity to connect his own family with the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty.

According to Tacitus:[1] additar pontificatus et quo primam die forum ingressas est congiarium plebi admodum laetae quod Germanici stirpem iam puberem aspiciebat.

However, in AD 17, the region suffered a major earthquake, and Myrina was one of twelve cities to receive funds for reconstruction from the Fiscus, the imperial treasury, as well as five years' tax remission from the Roman Senate.

[1] The obverse of the bronze coins shows a draped bust of Claudius Drusus facing to the right with the legend written clockwise in Koinē Greek: ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟϹ ΔΡΟΥϹΟϹ, romanized: Ti.

prope iam puberem amisit piro per lusum in sublime iactato et hiatu oris excepto strangulatum, cum ei ante paucos dies filiam Seiani despondisset.

Upon the death of his mother's brother Publius Plautius Pulcher during Claudius' reign, his funeral epitaph mentions that he was Drusus' uncle, possibly implying closeness between the two.