Scribonia Magna (fl. 1st century), known in modern historical sources as Scribonia Crassi, was a Roman noblewoman. Scribonia was descended from Pompey.
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Biography
Scribonia was born before 16, as in that year her father was executed on a charge of conspiracy against the Roman emperor Tiberius. Scribonia was born and raised in Rome. Very little is known of her life.
Scribonia married Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, a man of consular rank. Frugi's father, consul and governor Marcus Licinius Crassus, was the adopted son of consul and general Marcus Licinius Crassus the grandson of triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus. He was the last known direct descendant of the triumvir who bore his name.
Children and descendants
Scribonia bore Frugi the following children:
Son, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. In 43 he married Claudia Antonia, only child of Roman emperor Claudius from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina. Magnus was murdered in 47.
Son, Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi. He served as consul in 64 under emperor Nero. The wife of Frugi was Sulpicia Praetextata, daughter of the suffect consul in 46, Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Peticus. Nero had Frugi executed between 66 and 68, because of information brought against him by Marcus Aquilius Regulus. In the year 70, early in the reign of Vespasian, Praetextata and her children went to a Roman Senate meeting seeking vengeance for Frugi's death. Regulus and his associated political circle were prosecuted by the Senate. With Sulpicia Praetextata, Frugi had four children:
