Explanation: Pompey Magnus, a politician and military commander of the Late Roman Republic, had two failed marriages early in his life. His third marriage, however, to Julia, the daughter and beloved only child of Julius Caesar, was by all accounts a happy one. Julia was noted as an active, charming, beautiful, and intelligent woman, and both Caesar and Pompey were pleased with the match, both personally and politically (as marriage was often conducted for forming political alliances at the time). Julia was both attentive to her husband, and an advisor when she thought he needed it; Pompey was very respectful towards her and, exceptionally for a Roman aristocratic man of the period, appeared not to carry on any affairs during the marriage.

Both appeared to be genuinely in love, and a criticism from wider Roman society - especially from the optimates (conservatives) who wanted to use the politically moderate Pompey against the populare (reformist) Caesar - was that Pompey paid too much attention to Julia instead of politics! What is he, in LOVE with a WOMAN or something? While the Romans expected genuine love between husband and wife to develop, DUTY to the REPUBLIC should ALWAYS come FIRST to a good citizen's priorities, not effeminate EMOTIONS or the like!

Julia, sadly, would have a miscarriage after fainting from shock when she saw Pompey's clothes rushed to the house after elections, covered in blood, fearing it was his blood (it was not - Roman elections in the period could be... rough). Her next pregnancy would end in both her death and the child's, possibly related to health issues from this first miscarriage. Pompey and Caesar were both reportedly devastated by her death.