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Wednesday 9 March 2011

Tacitus, Nero and Agrippina

Section 1b- lines 5-9

placuit primo venenum. sed inter epulas principis si daretur
referri ad casum non poterat tali iam Britannici exitio. et
ministors temptare arduum videbatur mulieris usu scelerum
adversus insidias intentae; atquw ipsa praesumendo remedia
munierat corpus.

At first poison seemed good but if it were given during a feast of the emperors it would not be possible to attribute it to chance with the similar death of Britannicus recently also it seemed difficult to corrupt the servants of a woman experienced in crime, alert against plots and she herself was fortifying her body by taking anti-dotes in advance

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