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However it is more likely that she was the oldest daughter of Agrippa by his first wife, Caecilia Attica.
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If so, she was the first grandchild to Octavia Minor and first great-niece to Roman Emperor Augustus. Nepos Att. 19 records the birth of Tiberius"s future wife before the death of Atticus. If so, then a son of hers is recovered from a dedication inscription in the basilica Aemilia.
Tacitus hints that she did not die in childbirth or of natural causes.
He states that Agrippa"s children were either killed in battle, starved to death or poisoned. However, this may have just applied to Agrippa"s children by Julia the Elder, Augustus" daughter.
Tacitus makes no specific comment on Marcellina. The date of her death is uncertain.
In Robert Graves" books, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, she committed suicide for unexplained reasons, and later Roman Empress Livia Drusilla claimed she had killed herself over guilt for committing incest with her father, in order to secretly instigate Agrippa"s poisoning.
