Agrippa

[ US /əˈɡɹɪpə/ ]
NOUN
  1. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC)
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How To Use Agrippa In A Sentence

  • “A proposito del ˜De vanitate scientiarum et artium™ di Cornelio Agrippa.” Loss of Faith
  • John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa, King of Alba appeared in 1669.
  • Sicilia is at peace, charge of it given permanently to Marcus Agrippa, the only one gifted with an old-style latifundium there. Antony and Cleopatra
  • Agrippa had been entirely exploded, and that a modern system of science had been introduced, which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical; under such circumstances, I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside, and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies. Chapter 2
  • Doctor Agrippa, who surprisingly had kept well out of our way, now came to dance attendance on us.
  • Had Victor not abandoned his original mentors, necromancers like Paracelsus, Cornelius Agrippa, and Albertus Magnus, he might have created a harmless homunculus instead of the creature, who exacts revenge upon him.
  • A small group of vigiles appeared from behind the Baths of Agrippa, on the far side of her, now sensibly holding esparto mats in front of them. Two For The Lions
  • Behind him came Agrippa, also crowned, toting the curlicued staff of an augur and wearing his red-and-purple particolored toga. Antony and Cleopatra
  • In Judaea the procurators who replaced the deceased King Agrippa I in 44 proved unsatisfactory, and by 54 Claudius' eastern governors had allowed the Parthians to gain control of Greater Armenia, a serious blow to Roman prestige.
  • The emperor exiled Antipas and awarded his tetrarchy to Agrippa.
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