Junia Lepida was a Roman noblewoman who lived during the Roman Empire in the 1st century Anno Domini Lepida was the second born daughter and was among the children born of Aemilia Lepida and Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, a member of the Junii Silani, a family of Ancient Rome.
Background
Her maternal grandparents were Julia the Younger (granddaughter of the emperor Augustus) and Lucius Aemilius Paullus (a consul). Through her maternal grandparents she was a descendant of the Roman emperor Augustus, the noblewoman Scribonia, the statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and the consul Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (brother of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus).
Career
Cassius was a person with remarkable ancestral wealth. Cassius was deported to Sardinia. Her fate afterwards is not known.
Lepida"s husband was Praefectus urbi Romae ca AD 27, Consul suffectus in AD 30, Proconsul Asiae in 40 or 41, Legatus Augusti pro praetore provinciae Syriae between ca AD 45 and 49 and was later rehabilitated and recalled from exile by Vespasian.
Lepida bore Longinus two children:
Cassia Longina (b ca AD 35), married to Roman General Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo by whom she had two daughters Domitia and Domitia Longina
Cassius Lepidus (b ca AD 55), married to an unknown woman by whom he had a daughter Cassia Lepida (b ca AD 80).