The dubious death by poisoning of Germanicus Julius Caesar in Seleucia, AD 19. On his deathbed surrounded by his wife Agrippina the Elder, children, and his soldiers in a room decorated with signums and a triumphal mural. Germanicus was a popular and prominent Roman general, known for his campaigns in Germania. Mort de Germanicus. Copperplate engraving by Martin Pöltzel from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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