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Plautia Urgulanilla

the first wife of the emperor Claudius, who divorced her on account of her lewd conduct, and of her being suspected of murder. She bore two children during her marriage. Drusus, who died at Pompeii in A. D. 20 [DRUSUS, No. 23], and Claudia, whom she had by a freedman of Claudius. and who was therefore exposed by command of the emperor. (Suet. Cl. 26, 27.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.