Lucretia Aurelia, as she would commonly be known for the rest of her life, wouldn't rest after her retirement. She finally conducted that voyage of exploration around Africa, and with some loyal former soldiers, friends, and her eldest sons, would confirm Hanno's sightings. According to archeological evidence, which she left for future generations to explore and document, Lucretia's voyage reached as far south as modern day Angola.
After returning to Rome, she planned her next expedition by land to find the Heart of the Nile River. She traveled south, convening with kings of Ethiopia and Nubia. Though she didn't discover the source of the Nile, archeological evidence suggests she reached Lake Victoria, and viewed the waterfalls there. She would describe these sights, but never attribute names.
After this, she dropped out of historical records for a time. She popped up briefly after her husband would retire from public life in 10 B.C, when he helped her dictate her memoirs 'Salvatoria: From Caesar's Court to the Senate' when she was 65-66 years old. Cicero the Younger spent almost every day for the next six years with Lucretia. He would pass away in 4 B.C at the age of 60-61. Despite, like all of her marriages, being arranged, her 37 year marriage to Cicero the Younger saw the two become quite fond of each other.
After this, Lucretia once again disappears until her own death is recorded in 6 A.D. Her funeral was described as simple and elegant, and she was buried alongside her husband in Campania. Her immense wealth was split evenly between her children and the people of Rome. She, throughout her life, accumulated 350 million denarii, making her the wealthiest Roman to have ever lived, and until the time of Mansa Musa 1,300 years later, the richest person in human history. Upon her death, she lived a long, healthy life, with all of her legitimate children outliving her. She died of 'natural exhaustion' according to the sources.
She was 81 years old.
(75 B.C-6 A.D)
Marcus Agrippa wouldn't accumulate much intrigue after his exile to Crimea in 34 B.C. He would live in the Bosporan Kingdom until he fell ill, and died in 12 B.C at the age of 51.
(63 B.C-12 B.C)
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was exiled to the Albanian Kingdom (in modern day Azerbaijan and Dagestan) where he would live out the rest of his days. He died in 13 B.C at the age of 76.
(89 B.C-13 B.C)
Decimus Brutus Albinus would serve as governor, senator and a second consulship until 10 B.C. He was proclaimed 'Britannicus' as it was under his unofficial governance from 43-35 B.C that Rome subdued the entirety of Britannia, at least in concept. He died in 7 B.C, at the age of 74.
(81 B.C-7 B.C)
Arsinoe IV of Egypt would serve as Queen of Egypt until her death in 2 A.D at the age of 70. She was never able to procure an heir, even despite a remarkably successful 45 year rule. She granted her kingdom in her will to Rome, and ended Egyptian independence and ascension as a province of the Second Roman Republic.
Marcus Crassus III would serve as consuls and governors, as well as in the military. He oversaw the annexation of Judea in 3 B.C, subduing the Nasamones and Nabateans, and the expedition to Arabia, which ended in failure and his disgrace. He would vanish from the public record until his death in 11 A.D at the age of 64.
(53 B.C-11 A.D)
Publius Crassus would not go into politics or the military. Instead he became a playwright and poet, dabbling into art and expression. He wrote many plays regarding his mother, father, and their exploits. Several of his works has survived to the modern day, and one, The Tragedy of Crassus the Younger, sees his mother read a letter from his father to her, in which it says:
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Salvatoria: The Memoirs of Lucretia Aurelia
Historical FictionLucretia Aurelia Appius was only fourteen years old when soldiers ordered by Pompey the Great slayed her father and mother in front of her. They would have claimed her life as well, just for being her father's daughter, had she not miraculously run...
