to have been poisoned on the orders of Agrippina the Younger during the reign of Nero, but this Lepida was evidently Domitia Lepida Minor, the mother of Valeria Messalina and the second wife of Appius Junius Silanus. See also Junia gens References Sources Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum, Claudius, 26. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales. 1st-century BC Roman women 1st-century BC Romans Julio-Claudian dynasty Lepida, wife of Ap. Junius Silanus 5 BC births Place of birth unknown 43 deaths Place of death unknown Roman patricians Women of Claudius