agripina

Updated: September 1, 2025

The haughty Agripina aspired, indeed, to share the honors of the empire which she had conferred on her son; but her mad ambition, detested by every citizen who felt for the dignity of Rome, was disappointed by the artful firmness of Seneca and Burrhus.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1