Lo'llia
2.
Lollia Paullina, the granddaughter of M. Lollius [LOLLIUS No. 5], and heiress of his immense wealth, the spoil of the provinces. (
Plin. Nat. 9.35. s. 58.) Pliny describes the jewels which she wore in her hair, round her neck, arms and fingers, as worth forty millions of sesterces.
She was married to C. Memmius Regulus; but on the report of her grandmother's beauty, the emperor Caligula sent for her, divorced her from her husband, and married her, but soon divorced her again. (Suet.
Calig. 25;
D. C. 59.12.) After Claudius had put to death his wife Messalina, Lollia was one of the candidates for the vacancy ; but her more successful rival, Agrippina, easily obtained from Claudius a sentence of banishment against her, and then sent a tribune to murder her. (
Tac. Ann. 12.1;
Suet. Cl. 26; Dion Cass. 60.32.)
A sepulchre to her honour was not erected till the reign of the emperor Nero. (
Tac. Ann. 14.12.)
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