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Pandataria

Although Julia was sent to Trimerum off the Apulian coast, others were exiled to the island of Pandataria (Pandateria) far out to sea from Cumae and Baiae, where so many of the Roman nobility had their country villas. Augustus had exiled his own daughter Julia the Younger to Pandataria in 2 BC for her scandalous adulteries, and his other granddaughter Agrippina the Elder was sent there by Tiberius in AD 29, where she died of starvation. Octavia, the hapless wife of Nero, also died in Pandataria, sent there in AD 62 so he could marry Poppaea. Domitian, too, banished his niece Domitilla to that remote place in AD 95 for having adopted either Jewish or Christian practices.

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