It was going on six months since Livia broke her leg, and she had been spending every day since then in bed, refusing to get up and walk around even after the bone was fully healed. As Julia and Agrippa watched from the sidelines with a mixture of disgust and waning interest (which had started off vague in the first place), Livia continued to sulk and sulk until at last, Augustus ran out of patience and refused to indulge her anymore. After enduring nonstop cursing and complaints that someone had obviously tried to assassinate her, and that it was abominable to let the culprit get away with it, the emperor had snapped that a single embarrassing fall and an allergic reaction did not an assassination make.
Livia had only sulked more after that, however, and in the end, she received even bit
