Domitia Lepida the Younger
Domitia Lepida, also known as Domitia Lepida the Younger, or Domitia Lepida Minor,( c. 5 BC- 54 AD); was the younger daughter of consul, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major.
Her elder sister was Domitia Lepida the Elder and her younger brother was Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, father of the Emperor Nero.
She was the great niece of Emperor Augustus, granddaughter of Octavia the Younger and Triumvir Mark Antony, second cousin to the Emperor Caligula, first cousin and mother- in- law to the Emperor Claudius and paternal aunt of the Emperor Nero.
Lepida was a beautiful and influential figure.
Like her sister, she was also very wealthy.
She had holdings in Calabria and owned the" praedia Lepidiana".
Lepida was married three times.
Her first husband was her cousin, Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus.
Lepida married Barbatus probably around 15 AD, suggesting that she was born in approximately 4 BC.
It was standard for princesses in the imperial family to marry before their 18th birthday.
They had a daughter, Valeria Messalina( c. 17/20-48 AD), who became Empress and third wife to the Emperor Claudius.
Barbatus most likely died around 20 or 21 AD, shortly after Messalina was born.
It is extremely unlikely that Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus was their son, since Lepida's son by her second husband reached the consulship earlier than Messala.
Lepida's second husband was Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus," consul suffectus" in 31 AD, a descendant of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Their son, Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix was born c. 22 AD and married Claudia Antonia, the daughter of Claudius through his second marriage to Aelia Paetina.
Faustus Cornelius Sulla died in 62.
At the beginning of the reign of her son -in- law, Claudius, Lepida, now a widow, married Appius Junius Silanus,( cos. AD 28).
In the following year( 42 AD), Silanus was put to death by Claudius, allegedly because he had plotted to assassinate Claudius, but the rumor circulated that Messalina had framed him after he resisted her advances.
Lepida was the maternal grandmother to Messalina's children Claudia Octavia( step- sister and first wife of Nero) and Britannicus.
In 48 AD, Messalina was executed on the orders of Claudius, due to Messalina's mock marriage with her lover Gaius Silius which swiftly evolved into a failed coup d'état.
During Messalina's heyday, Lepida argued with Messalina and they became estranged( this likely followed Appius Silanus' execution).
In Messalina's last hour in the Gardens of Lucullus, Lepida was at her side and encouraged her to end her own life.
After Messalina was stabbed with a dagger by an officer, her body was given up to Lepida.
Lepida's former sister- in- law, Agrippina the Younger, became Claudius' new wife in 49 AD.
Out of jealousy, Agrippina arranged the execution of Lepida sometime before the poisoning of Claudius, after which Nero became the new emperor.
Agrippina charged Lepida with attempting to take her life by magic, disturbing Roman peace, and failing to control her Calabrian slave- gangs.
Agrippina thought that Lepida would use her' kind' influence on Nero to turn him against his mother.
She was played by Moira Redmond in the 1976 BBC TV series" I, Claudius".
Tetsuya Shiroo
On April 17, 2007, Shiroo shot Iccho Itoh, the mayor of Nagasaki, who died early the next morning.
Shiroo's apparent motive for the assassination was a grudge over an insurance claim.
City officials had refused to compensate him for a Yamaguchi- gumi vehicle that was damaged at a public works construction site in 2003.
It was reported in the Japanese press that prior to the shooting, Shiroo had mailed a letter to TV Asahi outlining his grudges against the mayor and the city government.
In addition to the insurance claim, Shiroo was also reportedly angry that a construction company linked to his gang had been denied a contract by the city government.
He later told police that he had been planning the assassination since February.
Shiroo approached Itoh at 7:50 pm outside his campaign office near Nagasaki Station, shooting him twice in the back with an American- made revolver.
Local police quickly subdued and arrested Shiroo, who reportedly later told police that he had planned to commit suicide after killing the mayor.
Shiroo was indicted by the Nagasaki District Public Prosecutor's office for murder, gun possession and obstruction of election campaigning.
Two of Shiroo's associates, Hiromi Ogawa and Masaki Yamashita, were arrested for helping Shiroo plan the killing, but charges were later dropped due to insufficient evidence.
Shiroo denied that he had told anyone of his plans to assassinate Itoh.
Police sources stated that the killing was a result of this personal grudge, and was not authorized by the Yamaguchi- gumi leadership.
After the mayor's death, Shiroo's gang, the Suishin- kai, announced that it would voluntarily disband.
His trial began on January 22, 2008.
Prosecutors sought capital punishment for him and he was sentenced to death on May 26, 2008.
However, the Fukuoka High Court revoked the death sentence and sentenced him to life imprisonment on September 29, 2009.
Faustus Cornelius Sulla (grandson of Sulla)
Faustus Cornelius Sulla is the presumed name of a son of the Roman senator Faustus Cornelius Sulla and his wife Pompeia( and thus grandson of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the triumvir Pompey the Great).
His existence can be inferred from a passage about the death of his father in 46 BC.
He is the presumed ancestor of several consuls in the first century AD, namely Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus( consul suffectus in 31 AD), Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix( consul 33), and Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix( consul 52 AD).
About his life and career, nothing is known.
Publius Cornelius Sulla (praetor 186 BC)
Publius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman politician of the second century BC.
He is most significant for having been the grandfather of the dictator and social reformer Lucius Cornelius Sulla through his son Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
He was the son of Publius Cornelius Sulla, the first member of the family to bear the name" Sulla", and the brother of Servius Cornelius Sulla.
He was elected praetor in 186 BC, receiving the province of Sicily.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Magnus
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Magnus was son of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus, who was a great-grandnephew of the Roman dictator Sulla.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Magnus and his brother Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus were senators who lived in Tiberius' reign.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (consul 5 BC)
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman senator of the Augustan age.
Perhaps he was a son of Publius Cornelius Sulla, designated consul for 65 BC, which made him a grandnephew of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was consul( together with the emperor Augustus) in 5 BC.
His sons were Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Magnus, both of whom became senators in Emperor Tiberius's reign.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (consul 33)
Lucius Cornelius
Sulla Felix was a Roman senator of the first century AD.
He was a" consul ordinarius" in AD 33 as the colleague of Galba, the future emperor.
Felix was the son of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus, and a great- grandnephew of the famed statesman Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
His mother was Sextia and his older brother was Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus.
Felix may be the Lucius Sulla Tacitus describes under the year 21 as coming into conflict with the future general Domitius Corbulo over who was of higher rank at a gladiatorial show.
" Corbulo had age, national usage, and the feelings of the older senators in his favor," writes Tacitus.
" Against him Mamercus Scaurus, Lucius Arruntius and other kinsmen of Sulla strenuously exerted themselves."
The matter was brought to the Senate where arguments filled the room until Drusus intervened and brought the body back to order.
The matter was resolved when both Sulla and Scaurus apologized to Corbulo.
Ronald
Syme argues for this identification, and as Scaurus is identified as Felix's uncle and step- father, concludes that Scaurus had married his mother Sextia after the death of his father, and the grandfather of Felix and the father of Scaurus had married the same woman.
An inscription recorded at Pisidian Antioch describes Felix as brother- in- law to Germanicus; Ronald Syme interprets this as proof that he was briefly married to Agrippina the Younger between the death of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus in the year 41 and her marriage to Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus.
Publius Cornelius Sulla
Publius Cornelius Sulla( died 45 BC) was a politician of the late Roman Republic and the nephew of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Faustus Cornelius Sulla (suffect consul AD 31)
Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman senator who lived during the reign of the emperor Tiberius.
He was suffect consul in AD 31 with Sextus Tedius Valerius Catullus as his colleague.
Faustus was the son of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus, and a great- grandnephew of the famed statesman Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
His mother was Sextia and his brother was Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix.
In 21, Faustus married Domitia Lepida the Younger.
She was a child of Antonia Major by Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus( consul 16 BC), a great niece of Emperor Augustus and a granddaughter to Octavia Minor and Triumvir Mark Antony.
Lepida had two children from her previous marriage to Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus:
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, and the Empress Messalina, third wife of the Emperor Claudius.
Domitia Lepida bore Faustus a son called Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix( 22- 62), who later married Claudia Antonia, a daughter of Claudius.
Faustus died of uncertain causes around 40.
Faustus Cornelius Sulla (quaestor 54 BC)
Faustus Cornelius Sulla( before 86 BC – 46 BC) was a Roman senator.
Faustus was the only surviving son of the Dictator of Rome Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his fourth wife Caecilia Metella, and thus a member of one of the most ancient patrician families, the Cornelii.
After his father's death in 78 BC, he and his twin sister Fausta were brought up by his guardian, his father's friend Lucullus.
Faustus married Pompeia, daughter of Pompey the Great.
Faustus accompanied Pompey on his Asian campaigns, and was the first to climb over the walls of the Temple of Jerusalem when it was stormed by Pompey in 63 BC.
After his return to Rome, he gave gladiatorial games to celebrate his father in 60 BC.
At an unknown time before 57 BC, Faustus Sulla became augur.
As moneyer in 56 BC, he issued coinage in honor of his father and his father- in- law.
As owner of the central slopes of Mount Falernus, his name became synonymous with the most esteemed wine in ancient Rome, Faustian Falernian.
Faustus Sulla was Quaestor in 54 BC.
The senate commissioned him to rebuild the Curia Hostilia in 52 BC which had been burned down after the riots which followed the murder of Clodius.
After that the Curia was known as the Curia Cornelia.
His career as an advocate was cut short, however, by the civil war between Pompey and Julius Caesar.
He, as Lucullus' ward and Pompey's son -in- law, sided with the former.
Faustus was at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, joining the leaders of his party in Africa subsequently.
After the Battle of Thapsus, he tried to escape to Mauretania, but was caught and killed by Publius Sittius, a supporter of Caesar, in 46 BC.
With Pompeia he had at least two children: Faustus Cornelius Sulla the Younger and Cornelia Sulla( married Lucius Scribonius Libo, who was praetor in 80 BC).
From one of whom is presumably descended Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus, suffect consul in 31 AD.

Question: Does Tetsuya Shiroo have the same nationality as Faustus Cornelius Sulla (Quaestor 54 Bc)?
Answer: no