Agrippina
Agrippina, Agrippina; the city Köln, Cologne
- I The wife of the emperor Tiberius, granddaughter of Atticus, Suet. Tib. 7.—
- II A daughter of Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Germanicus, and mother of the emperor Caligula, Tac. A. 2, 54.—
- III Daughter of the preced. and Germanicus, wife of Cn. Domitius Aënobarbus, and mother of the emperor Nero, Tac. A. 4, 75. From her a colony planted on the Rhine received the name Colonia Agrippina, Tac. A. 12, 27, or Agrippinensis, id. H. 1, 57; 4, 55 (now Cologne); and its inhabitants were called Agrippinenses, id. G. 28.
- 1. dochter v. M. Vipsanius Agrippa en Pomponia, echtgenote v. keizer Tiberius;
- 2. dochter v. M. Vipsanius Agrippa en Julia, echtgenote v. Germanicus, moeder v. Caligula;
- 3. kleindochter v. M. Vipsanius Agrippa, dochter v. Germanicus en Agrippina, in haar derde huwelijk echtgenote v. keizer Claudius (haar oom), uit haar eerste huwelijk moeder v. Nero, op wiens bevel zij vermoord werd; haar geboorteplaats in het gebied v.d. Ubii werd op haar initiatief in 50 n. Chr. een kolonie en Colōnia Agrippīnēnsis (voluit Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis) genoemd (nu Keulen); — inw. Agrippīnēnsēs, ium m.
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…. unde orta miseratio manifestior, quia dissimulationem nox et lascivia exemerat. Nero intellecta invidia odium intendit ; urgentibusque Agrippinae minis, quia nullum crimen neque iubere caedem fratris palam audebat, occulta molitur pararique venenum iubet, ministro Pollione…
Tacitus, Annales
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…opes contendere ac digna tanto matrimonio ostentare. sed maxime ambigebatur inter Lolliam Paulinam M. Lollii consularis et Iuliam Agrippinam Germanico genitam huic Pallas, illi Callistus fautores aderant ; at Aelia Paetina e familia Tuberonum Narcisso fovebatur. ipse…
Tacitus, Annales
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…, depellitur tali occasione. obvii inter se Nero Britannicum nomine, ille Domitium salutavere. quod ut discordiae initium Agrippina multo questu ad maritum defert sperni quippe adoptionem, quaeque censuerint patres, iusserit populus, intra penatis abrogari ;…
Tacitus, Annales
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…, non repertis qui sequerentur exemplum, excepto libertino quodam et altero primipilari, cuius nuptiarum officium et ipse cum Agrippina celebrauit. liberos ex tribus uxoribus tulit ex Vrgulanilla Drusum et Claudiam, ex Paetina Antoniam, ex Messalina Octauiam…
Suetonius, Lives
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…navi defixit oculos, idem omnium gemitus ; neque discerneres proximos alienos, virorum feminarumve planctus, nisi quod comitatum Agrippinae longo maerore fessum obvii et recentes in dolore antibant. Miserat duas praetorias cohortis Caesar, addito ut magistratus Calabriae…
Tacitus, Annales
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…nec dubitatum est apud provincias. caelestesque honores Claudio decernuntur et funeris sollemne perinde ac divo Augusto celebratur, aemulante Agrippina proaviae Liviae magnificentiam. testamentum tamen haud recitatum, ne antepositus filio privignus iniuria et invidia animos vulgi turbaret .…
Tacitus, Annales
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…mox laudare constantiam quod non, ut ceteri, florentis domus amicus adflictam deseruisset ; simul honora de Germanico, Agrippinam miserans, disserebat. et postquam Sabinus, ut sunt molles in calamitate mortalium animi, effudit lacrimas, iunxit…
Tacitus, Annales
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…quibusdam reuocatis auctoramento centenum milium ; dedit et ludos, sed absens cuncta magnifice, inpensa matris ac uitrici. Agrippinam, Marco Agrippa genitam, neptem Caecili Attici equitis R ., ad quem sunt Ciceronis epistulae, duxit uxorem…
Suetonius, Lives
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…largitionem temptet, tamquam parum ambitiose filium ducis gregali habitu circumferat Caesaremque Caligulam appellari velit. potiorem iam apud exercitus Agrippinam quam legatos, quam duces ; conpressam a muliere seditionem, cui nomen principis obsistere non quiverit. accendebat haec…
Tacitus, Annales
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…parum coercitis per Calabriam servorum agminibus pacem Italiae turbaret. ob haec mors indicta, multum adversante Narcisso, qui Agrippinam magis magisque suspectans prompsisse inter proximos ferebatur certam sibi perniciem, seu Britannicus rerum seu Nero poteretur ; verum ita…
Tacitus, Annales
(1) The daughter of M. Vipsanius Agrippa (q.v.) and of Iulia, the infamous daughter of the emperor Augustus, and married to Germanicus (q.v.), by whom she had nine children, among whom were the emperor Caligula, and Agrippina, the mother of Nero. She was distinguished for her virtues and heroism, and shared all the dangers of her husband's campaigns. On his death, in A.D. 17, she returned to Italy; but the favour with which she was received by the people increased the hatred which Tiberius and his mother, Livia, had long entertained towards her. At length, in A.D. 30, Tiberius banished her to the island of Paudataria, where she died three years afterwards. See the portrait on p. 729.
(2) Daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina (supra), and mother of the emperor Nero, was born at Oppidum Ubiorum, afterwards called, in honour of her, Colonia Agrippina, now Cologne. She was beautiful and intelligent, but licentious, cruel, and ambitious. She was first married to Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (A.D. 28), by whom she had a son, afterwards the emperor Nero; next to Crispus Passienus; and thirdly to the emperor Claudius (A.D. 49), although she was his niece. In A.D. 50 she prevailed upon Claudius to adopt her son, to the prejudice of his own son Britannicus; and, in order to secure the succession for Nero, she poisoned the emperor in A.D. 54. The young emperor soon became tired of the ascendency of his mother, and, after making several attempts to shake off her authority, he caused her to be assassinated in A.D. 59.