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Hector has an abscess in his back where a wooden chair was flung at him; and Agrippina's three little kittens have died of hunger beside their mother, because Peppina forgot them in their basket up in the attic. There is no putting up with the creature do send her away, Father Gatto! Lizina herself would not be angry with us; she must know very well what her sister is like.
Agrippina's influence, to the general satisfaction, rapidly declined, while Nero gained every day in popularity. Agrippina, however, was too energetic a woman peaceably to resign herself: she began a violent campaign against the two adulterers, which deeply troubled the public.
The vessel moved swiftly, at no great distance from the shore, under the regular sweep of the rowers' oars. Yet little way had been made when there came a disastrous change. A signal was given, and suddenly the deck over Agrippina's cabin sank in, borne down by a great weight of lead.
Sometimes, too, the terrier that lives next door comes out to sun himself in the street, and, beholding my cat sitting well out of reach, he dances madly up and down the pavement, barking with all his might, and rearing himself on his short legs, in a futile attempt to dislodge her. Then the spirit of evil enters Agrippina's little heart.
Cneius Lentulus Gaetulicus says that he was born at Tibur; Pliny the younger, in the country of the Treviri, at a village called Ambiatinus, above Confluentes ; and he alleges, as a proof of it, that altars are there shown with this inscription: "For Agrippina's child-birth." Some verses which were published in his reign, intimate that he was born in the winter quarters of the legions,
The spot which had been chosen was so near the land as to allow of the escape of the mariners by swimming, but yet remote enough, as was supposed, to make Agrippina's destruction sure. A few of the mariners were in the secret, and were in some degree prepared for what was to come.
His treatment of her. He makes her a present of jewelry. Agrippina is enraged. Nero resolves to subdue his mother. His plan. Pallas dismissed. His withdrawal. Agrippina's bitter reproaches. Her threats. She declares that she will cause Nero to be deposed. Probable character and meaning of these threats. The game of "who shall be king?" Nero's orders to Britannicus. The song which Britannicus sung.
This "restoration of the republic" was Agrippina's masterpiece, and marks the zenith of her power.
Consultation with Seneca and Burrus. Anicetus undertakes to finish his work. Anicetus goes to Agrippina's villa. Conversation. Agrippina is murdered. Nero is overwhelmed with remorse and horror. He becomes more calm. The dead body. Burning of the body of Agrippina.
The intensity of Agrippina's nature might have been used for happy ends if the stream of her life had not been so early dammed and polluted. She loved her child with a clutching, feverish affection, and declared that he would some day rule Rome. This was not really such a far-away dream, when we remember that her brother was then Emperor and childless.
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