The court of Augustus - wife, daughter, grandsons, step-sons, sister, Agrippa, relatives, households, friends, Areius, Maecenas, doctors, diviners: an entire court dead. Go on now to other cases, where it is not death of just one individual but of a whole family, like Pompeys. And there is the inscription you see on tombstones: "The last of his line'. Just think of all the anxiety of previous generations to leave behind an heir, and then one has to be the last. Here again the death of a whole family.
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