A Roman family celebrated for their crimes and misfortunes as well as their wealth.
wice married, had had twelve children by his first wife, whom he treated cruelly; after his second marriage cruelly treated the children of his first wife, but conceived a criminal passion for the youngest of them, a beautiful girl named
hom he outraged, upon which, being unable to bring him to justice, she, along with her stepmother and a brother, hired two assassins to murder him; the crime was found out, and all three were be headed; this is the story on which Shelley founded his tragedy, but it is now discredited.