Tiberius Claudius Nero (father of Tiberius Caesar)

[5] Nero had served as a quaestor to Julius Caesar in 48 BC, commanding his fleet in the Alexandrian War.

After the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC, when it seemed that the assassins were triumphant, he suggested that they be rewarded for their services to the state.

However, due to his previous alliance with the Roman dictator, Nero was allowed to be elected praetor in 42 BC.

[6][7] Around the time Nero was elected praetor in 42 BC, he married his relative Livia Drusilla,[a] whose father Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was from the same gens.

In 41 BC, he fled Rome with Livia and Tiberius in tow, joining Antony's brother Lucius in Perusia.

Perusia was besieged by Octavian's men by the time Nero arrived, and when the town fell in 40 BC, he was forced to flee first to Praeneste, and then Naples.

In Naples, Nero tried in vain to raise a slave battalion against Octavian and then took refuge with Sextus Pompey, who was then acting as a pirate leader in Sicily.