How To Use Agrippina In A Sentence
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Nor will the inscription upon the altar serve to establish Pliny's opinion; because Agrippina was delivered of two daughters in that country, and any child-birth, without regard to sex, is called puerperium, as the ancients were used to call girls puerae, and boys puelli.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
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One of the first measures which the new emperor adopted, was to recall Agrippina from her banishment at Pontia, where Caligula had confined her, and restore her to her former position in Rome.
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Ambitious for power, the wily Sejanus now used his opportunity to pick away at the scab of resentment between Livia and Agrippina, attempting to foment the empress’s and her son’s antagonism toward Germanicus’s widow by trading on what Tacitus described as Agrippina’s “insubordination” and “ill-concealed maternal ambitions.”
Caesars’ Wives
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Diana Rigg cuts a fine figure as Agrippina and, despite a ragingly rutilant Louise Brooks wig, as Phèdre.
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Inscribed underneath were the words Agripp(ina) Aug(usta) divi Claud(ii) Neronis Caes(aris) mater, “Agrippina Augusta, mother of the divine Claudius Nero Caesar.”
Caesars’ Wives
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The event attracted an audience of thousands from the city and the provinces and involved nineteen thousand player-combatants navigating the twelve-mile-long lake in two teams of fifty ships a side.61 One of those present in the wooden viewing stands that day was the great Roman writer Pliny the Elder, who described the dazzling sight of Agrippina dressed in a golden chlamys, a Greek version of the Roman military cape that her husband was wearing.
Caesars’ Wives
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Clytemnestra led Miri to a place at the head of the triclinium removed from Germanicus and Agrippina, but she noted, several heads above some very important people from the city.
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To West, who by this time was declining in health, he sent part of "Agrippina," a tragedy he had commenced.
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When Agrippina decided to show sympathy for Claudius' natural son Britannicus in 55, she sealed his doom, though the poisoning was not overt and could be dissembled, as by Seneca, who wrote praising Nero's clemency in the next year.
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_ 5, 105, 'Revocatus ... etsi magno desiderio Athenas intenderet ab Agrippina tamen in palatium adductus.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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The paludamentum, a military style of garment reminiscent of the chlamys that Agrippina Minor once scandalously wore in public, had previously been reserved for the wardrobe of emperors.
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Inscribed underneath were the words Agripp(ina) Aug(usta) divi Claud(ii) Neronis Caes(aris) mater, “Agrippina Augusta, mother of the divine Claudius Nero Caesar.”
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Agrippina," with a plangent oboe obbligato from Marc Schachman, came as a reminder of how eloquent Daniels can be.
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Although the historical characters that make up the cast are a pretty unsavory crew, all thoughts of murder, mayhem, and matricide were still in the future when Agrippina plotted to make her son, Nero, Rome's emperor.
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Her emotional journey to Brundisium caught the imagination of neoclassical painters in the eighteenth century, including William Turner, Gavin Hamilton, and Benjamin West, whose famous painting Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus was commissioned by the archbishop of York, Dr. Robert Drummond.
Caesars’ Wives
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The chlamys was a foreign warrior’s garment, hardly the typical uniform of a Roman woman, though tellingly it was the dress of Virgil’s tragic heroine of the Aeneid, Queen Dido of Carthage, who like Agrippina had taken on traditionally male responsibilities, attempting to found a new kingdom for her people.62
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Confluentes [386]; and he alleges, as a proof of it, that altars are there shown with this inscription: "For Agrippina's child-birth.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
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Agrippina filens, eoque minus agnita, unum ta - men vulnus humero excepit.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia. ...
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Who has not read Agnes Repplier's fascinating essays on "Agrippina" and
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Yet elevating Agrippina in coins that showed the newly married couple in jugate joined pose came with attendant risks.
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Lomovs, especially to Fedulia Ivanovna, who never called Agrippina
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While in Venice he brought out another opera, "Agrippina," which had even greater success.
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'Rodrigo,' produced at Florence in 1707, made him famous, and 'Agrippina' (Venice, 1708) raised him almost to the rank of a god.
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Everyone called Agrippina the honor of her country, the blood of Augustus, the only and last example of the ancient Roman Vertue: And everyone prayed the Gods that they would preserve her Race, and make her live beyond, and after the entire ruin of these wicked men.
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Agrippina is considered to be the murderer, because she was ambitious for her son, Nero, and Claudius had become suspicious of her intrigues.