A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fk;. S). - The Emperor statue in tlie Vatican.(From a photograph.) AGEIPPINA AND HER SON NERO. 93 skill, and took her place as co-regent, even in the great public acts ofstate. Step by step she accomplished her chief object, the pushingaside of Älessalinas son, Britanniens, and secured the succession forher son Domitius. She began by winning over Pallas and other menof high position. L. Annaeus Seneca (born in 4), son of therhetorician M. Annaeus Seneca of Corduba, the most brilliant
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fk;. S). - The Emperor statue in tlie Vatican.(From a photograph.) AGEIPPINA AND HER SON NERO. 93 skill, and took her place as co-regent, even in the great public acts ofstate. Step by step she accomplished her chief object, the pushingaside of Älessalinas son, Britanniens, and secured the succession forher son Domitius. She began by winning over Pallas and other menof high position. L. Annaeus Seneca (born in 4), son of therhetorician M. Annaeus Seneca of Corduba, the most brilliant nameamong the writers of this age, a man of great gifts and fine taste, hadbeen quaestor and member of the senate under Caius, but as the resultof a court intrigue had been banished to Corsica. Agrippina secured. Fig. 26. — The Empress Agrippina. Antique it itue lu , (From a photograph.) national Museum. his recall, and made him the tutor of her intelligent but wayward son,whom she caused to be betrothed to Octavia, the emperors elderdaughter, and to be adopted by Claudius, in 50, as Nero Clau-dius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. In 51 he was intrusted withthe secondary proconsular authority for the whole realm, and in theearly part of 53 married to Octavia. Toward the end of 51the empress succeeded in placing Afranius Burrus, a distinguishedofficer with an excellent reputation, at the head of the praetorians. One opponent only, the powerful minister Narcissus, Agrippinawas not able to overcome; and when she saw that he, in spite of his 94 THE JULIAN-CLAUDIAN DYNASTY. part in Messalinas fall, meant to secure to Britanniens his inheritance,she determined, as she was not sure of Claudius, to remove the oldemperor. She seized the occasion of the absence of Narcissus from th
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