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Updated: June 13, 2025
I do not need any of those things, so you take them the furniture everything." "Yes, Agrippina Petrovna told me. I have been there. I thank you very much. But " At that moment the servant brought in a silver tea service. Natalie Ivanovna busied herself with making the tea. Nekhludoff was silent. "Well, Dimitri, I know everything," Natalie said, resolutely, glancing at him.
Return of the commissioners to Nero. Nero is convinced of his mother's innocence. Nero's course of life. Riots in the street. Agrippina lives in seclusion. Poppæa. Her influence over Nero. Her taunts and reproaches. Effect of them on Nero's mind. Nero begins to desire the death of his mother. Great naval celebration at Misenum. Anicetus. Proposal of Anicetus. Nero is pleased with it.
Then, planting a guard round the mansion, Anicetus burst open its doors, seized the slaves who appeared, and forced his way to the apartment of the empress. Here Agrippina waited in fear and agitation the return of her messenger. Why came he not? Was new murder in contemplation? She heard the tumult and confusion on the shore, and learned from her attendants what it meant.
Unfortunately, every one sided with Nero: the sincere friends of tradition, because they did not want the rule of a woman, whoever she might be; those that longed for Messalina's times, because they saw personified in Agrippina the austere and inflexible spirit of the gens Claudia. The situation was soon without an issue.
If they dissuaded him in vain from the crime which he meditated their lives would have been in danger; and perhaps they sincerely thought that things had gone so far that, unless Agrippina were anticipated, Nero would be destroyed. Seneca was the first to break that silence of anguish by inquiring of Burrus whether the soldiery could be entrusted to put her to death.
It is obvious, however, that many ways might be devised for evading such a precaution as this, and Halotus and Agrippina arranged it, that the poison, in this case, should be put upon a dish of mushrooms, and served to the emperor at his supper. The taster was to avoid, by means of some dextrous management, the taking of any portion of the fatal ingredients himself.
However this may have been, Nero acquiesced at once in her decision, and provided a sort of sedan for conveying her to Baiæ by land. In this sedan she was carried accordingly, by bearers to Baiæ, and there lodged in the apartments provided for her. No favorable opportunity occurred for taking Agrippina out upon the water until the time arrived for her return to Antium.
The reign of Claudius was brought to an end by poison the notorious Locusta was employed by Agrippina for the purpose and he was succeeded by Nero, to whom his mother's artifices gave the priority over Britannicus. IV. The Infamies of Nero At the outset the young emperor was guided by Seneca and Burrus; his first speech put into his mouth by Seneca, for he was no orator was full of promise.
His wife, Agrippina, Nero's mother, was as wicked as he; and it is said that when the messenger came to him to announce the birth of his child, the hero of this narrative, he uttered some exclamation of ill-humor and contempt, and said that whatever came from him and Agrippina could not but be fraught with ruin to Rome.
According to his story, from the first day of her marriage Agrippina attempted to make of her son, the future Emperor Nero, the successor of Claudius, thereby excluding Britannicus, the son of Messalina, from the throne. To obtain this end, she spared, he says, neither intrigues, fraud, nor deceit; she had Seneca recalled from exile and appointed tutor of her child.
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