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Updated: May 13, 2025
There was much pomp and ceremony at the wedding, and the high priest pronounced the magic words I trust I use the right expression. Very soon after her marriage, Agrippina recalled Seneca from exile.
If Nero succeeded in getting his mother on board the vessel, Anicetus would take upon himself the task of burying quickly below the waves the secret of her death; the people who hated Agrippina would easily be satisfied with the explanations to be given them. Nero executed his part of the plan in perfect cold-blood.
A luxuriously-looking pile of cushions, covered with red morocco, lay along the transom, in the manner of an eastern divan; and against the bulk-head of each state-room, stood an agrippina of mahogany, that was lined with the same material.
Others say by Agrippina, at his own table, in mushrooms, a dish of which he was very fond . The accounts of what followed likewise differ.
Up to this time he had not experienced in his own person those crimes and horrors which fall to the lot of men who are brought into close contact with tyrants. This first happened to him in the reign of Caius Caesar, of whom we are enabled, from the writings of Seneca alone, to draw a full-length portrait. Caius Caesar was the son of Germanicus and the elder Agrippina.
There was nothing in the attendant circumstances that were connected with the act of Nero in murdering his mother, which could palliate or extenuate the deed in the slightest degree. It was not an act of self-defense. Agrippina was not doing him, or intending to do him any injury. It was not an act of hasty violence, prompted by sudden passion.
"Well, then, she was tried in court yesterday, and I was one of the jury." "Ah, good Lord! what a pity!" said Agrippina Petrovna. "What was she tried for?" "Murder, and it was all caused by me." "How could you have caused it? You are talking very strangely," said Agrippina Petrovna, and fire sparkled in her old eyes. She knew of the incident with Katiousha. "Yes, it is my fault.
Carlyle's "Gloriana" was to the mind of his wife a "heathen goddess," while Mrs. Carlyle, with reference to her favourite dog "Nero," was in her turn nicknamed "Agrippina."
Agrippina took her place upon a couch which had been arranged for her, under a sort of canopy or awning, the frame-work of which, above, had been secretly loaded with lead. She was attended here by one of her ladies named Aceronia Polla, who lay at her mistress's feet, and entertained her with conversation as the boat glided along on its way.
Although indications are not lacking that there was no great harmony or friendship between Sejanus and Drusus, it is evident that Sejanus, as the energetic representative of the interests of Tiberius, must have directed all his efforts against the friends of Agrippina, who was arousing the fiercest opposition to the emperor.
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