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Agrippina

noun
1.
Wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero.  Synonym: Agrippina the Younger.
2.
Granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33).  Synonym: Agrippina the Elder.






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"Agrippina" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing from acquiescence in a king's murder of his mother. Even here Diderot's impetuosity carries him in two or three bounds over every obstacle. The various courses open to the minister, after the murder of Agrippina, are discussed and dismissed. What, after Nero had slain his mother, was there nothing left to be done by a firm, just, and enlightened man, with an immense burden of affairs on his back, and capable by his courage and benevolence, of ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley



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