Italy / Holland: 'Aemilia Lepida, wife of Galba, Emperor of Rome' (1st century CE), line engraving by Aegidus Sadeler, after Titian, 17th Century

Aemilia Lepida (1st century CE) was the wife of Galba, with whom she bore two sons before her death. Galba was devoted to his wife and so was completely uninterested when Agrippina the Younger, fourth wife of Tiberius and mother of Nero, then a widow, made countless shameless advances on Galba, wishing for him to divorce Lepida and marry her instead. It is said that on one occasion, Lepida's mother publicly reprimanded Agrippina in public and slapped her in the face. Lepida died relatively young, and so did her sons, and his love for her meant that Galba never remarried.

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