Vistilia

Due to her fertility Vistilia became a byword for prodigious fecundity in antiquity.

[3] In the opinion of Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, this made Vistilia "an extremely valuable bride, whose connections offered her husbands and their joint children fantastic prospects.

But when Drusus died of a fall from his horse in 9 BC, "marriage to Vistilia, from a praetorian family, suddenly became a lot less interesting for ambitious and high-ranking senators descending from noble families.

"[4] But then Sextus was admitted to the cohors amicorum, and her value as a bride was restored; she married twice more.

By the time Sextus committed suicide in 32, Vervaet notes "he had long outlived his utility.

A multigenerational banquet depicted on a wall painting 1st century AD