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On the other hand, she was inordinately jealous.

She arranged for Alexander to marry Sallustia Orbiana, the daughter of a noble Patrician family, but grew so jealous of Sallustia ’ s influence over her son that she had her banished from court.

She also alienated the army by extreme parsimony, and neither she nor her son were strong enough to impose military discipline.