)
slightly wounded, and immediately afterwards ex- There are some other mythical personages of the
pired under the blows of a centurion.
slightly wounded, and immediately afterwards ex- There are some other mythical personages of the
pired under the blows of a centurion.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
iii.
2), which may indicate certain official off, but it was saved by the firm opposition of
lists drawn up by him in the measurement of the Agrippina to such a cowardly measure. When
Roman world under Augustus (AETHICUS), in the troops approached, she went to the bridge,
which he may have taken part.
acting as a general, and receiving the soldiers as
Agrippa left several children. By his first wife they crossed it; the wounded among them were
Pomponia, he had Vipsania, who was married to presented by her with clothes, and they received
Tiberius Caesar, the successor of Augustus. By from her own hands everything necessary for the
his second wife, Marcella, he had several children cure of their wounds. (Tac. Ann. i. 69. ) Ger-
who are not mentioned; and by his third wife, manicus having been recalled by Tiberius, she ac-
Julia, he had two daughters, Julia, married to companied her husband to Asia (A. D. 17), and
L. Aemilius Paullus, and Agrippina married to after his death, or rather murder (GERMANICUS),
Germanicus, and three sons, Caius [CAESAR, C. ], she returned to Italy. She stayed some days at
Lucius (Caesar, L. ], and AGRIPPA Postumus. the island of Corcyra to recover from her grief,
(Dion Cass. lib. 45-54 ; Liv. Epit. 117-136; and then landed at Brundusium, accompanied by
Appian, Bell. Civ. lib. 5; Suet. Octav. ; Frandsen, two of her children, and holding in her arms the
M. Vipsanius Ayrippa, eine historische Untersuchung urn with the ashes of her husband. At the news
über dessen Leben und Wirken, Altona, 1836. ) of her arrival, the port, the walls, and even the
There are several medals of Agrippa : in the one roofs of the houses were occupied by crowds of
figured below, he is represented with a naval people who were anxious to see and salute her.
crown ; on the reverse is Neptune indicating his She was solemnly received by the officers of two
success by sen
[W. P. ] Praetorian cohorts, which Tiberius had sent to
Brundusium for the purpose of accompanying her
to Rome; the urn containing the ashes of Germa-
nicus was borne by tribunes and centurions, and
the funeral procession was received on its march
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by the magistrates of Calnbria, Apulia, and Cam-
pania ; by Drusus, the son of Tiberius; Claudius,
the brother of Germanicus ; by the other children
of Germanicus; and at last, in the environs of
Rome, by the consuls, the senate, and crowds of
the Roman people. (Tac. Ann. iii, 1, &c. )
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During some years 'Tiberius disguised his hatred | with M. Aemilius Lepidus, the husband of
of Agrippina ; but she soun became exposed to her sister Drusilla, banished her to the island of
secret accusations and intrigues. She asked the Pontia, which was situated opposite the bay of
emperor's permission to choose another husband, Caieta, off the coast of Italy. Her sister Drusilla
but 'Tiberius neither refused nor consented to the was likewise banished to Pontia, and it seeins
proposition. Sejanus, who exercised an unbound that their exile was connected with the punish-
ed influence over Tiberius, then a prey to mental ment of Lepidus, who was put to death for having
disorders, persunded Agrippina that the emperor conspired against the emperor. Previonsly to her
intended to poison her. Alarmed at such a report, exile, Agrippina was compelled by her brother
she refused to eat an apple which the emperor to carry to Rome the ashes of Lepidus. This
offered her from his taule, and Tiberius in his happened in A. D. 39. Agrippina and her sister
turn complained of Agrippina regarding him were released in A. D. 41, by their uncle, Clau-
as a poisoner. According to Suetonius, all this dius, iinmediately after bis accession, although
was an intrigue preconceried between the emperor his wife, Messalina, was the mortal enemy
and Sennus, who, as it seems, had formed the of Agrippina. Messalina was put to death by
plan of leading Agrippina into false steps. Tibe order of Claudius in A. D. 48 ; and in the follow-
rius was extremely suspicious of Agrippina, and ing year, a. D. 49, Agrippina succeeded in mar.
shewed his hostile fealings by allusive words or rying the emperor. Claudins was her uncle, but
neglectful silence. There were no evidences of her marriage was legalized by a senatusconsul-
ambitious plans formed by Agrippina, but the cum, by which the marriage of a man with bis
rumour having been spread that she would fly to brother's daughter was declared valid ; this scnatus-
the army, he banished her to the island of Pan- consultum was afterwards abr ted by the emper
dataria (A. D. 30) where her mother Julia had ors Constantine and Constans. In this intrigue
died in exile. Her sons Nero and Drusus were Agrippina displayed the qualities of an accomplished
likewise banished and both died an unnatural courtezan, and such was the influence of her charms
death. She lived three years on that barren and superior talents over the old emperor, that, in
island; at last she refused to take any food, prejudice of his own son, Britannicus, he adopt-
and died most probably by voluntary starvation. ed Domitius, the son of Agrippina by her first
Her death took place precisely two years after and husband, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus. (A. D. 51. )
on the same date as the murder of Sejanus, that is Agrippina was assisted in her secret plans by
in A. D. 33. Tacitus and Suetonius tell us, that Pallas, the perfidious contidant of Claudius. By
Tiberius boasted that he had not strangled ber. her intrigues, L. Junius Silanus, the husband of
(Sueton. Tib. 53; Tac. Ann. vi. 25. ) The ashes Octaviin the daughter of Claudius, was put to
of Agrippina and those of her son Nero were death, and in a. D. 53, Octavia was married to
afterwards brought to Rome by order of her son, young Nero. Lollia Paullina, once the rival of
the emperor Caligula, who struck various medals in Agrippina for the hand of the emperor, was accused
honour of his mother. In the one figured below, of high treason and condemned in death; but she
the head of Caligula is on one side and that of his put an end to her own life. Domitia Lepiaa, the
mother on the other. The words on each side are sister of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, met with a
respectively, C. CAESAR. AVG. GER. P. K. TR. PUT. , sinuilar fate. After having tbus removed those
and AGRIPPINA. MAT. C. CAES. AVG. GERM. whose rivalship she dreaded, or whose virtues she
envied, Agrippina resolved to get rid of ber hus-
band, and to govern the empire through her ascen-
dency over her son Nero, his successor. A vague
rumour of this reached the emperor; in a state of
drunkenness, he forgot prudence, and talked about
punishing his ambitious wife. Having no time to
lose, Agrippina, assisted by Locusta and Xenophon,
a Greek physician, poisoned the old emperor, in
(Tac. Ann. i. -vi. ; Sueton. Octav. 64, Tih. l. c. , A. D. 54, at Sinuessa, a watering-place to which
Calig. 1. c. ; Dion. Cass. lvii. 5, 6, lviii. 22. ) [W. P] he had retired for the sake of his health. Nero
AGRIPPI'NA 11. , the daughter of Germani- was proclaimed emperor, and presented to the
cus and Agrippina the elder, daughter of M. troops by Burtus, whom Agrippina had appointed
Vipsanius Agrippa. She was born between A. D. praefectus praetorio. Narcissus, the rich freedman
13 and 17, at the Oppidum Ubiorum, afterwards of Claudius, M. Junius Silanus, proconsul of Asia,
called in honour of her Colonia Agrippina, now the brother of L. Junius Silanus, and a great.
Cologne, and then the head-quarters of the legions grandson of Augustus, lost their lives at the insti-
commanded by her father. In a. D. 28, she mar- gation of Agrippina, who would have augmented
ried Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, a man not un- the number of her victims, but for the opposition
like her, and whom she lost in A. D. 40. After of Burrus and Senect, recalled by Agrippina from
his death she married Crispus Passienus, who died his exile to conduct the education of Nero. Mean-
some years afterwards ; and she was accused of hav. while, the young emperor took some steps to shake
ing poisoned him, either for the purpose of obtain: off the insupportable ascendency of his mother.
ing his great fortune, or for some secret motive of The jealousy of Agrippina rose from her son's pas
much higher importance. She was already known sion for Acte, and, after her, for Poppaea Sabina,
for her scandalous conduct, for her most perfidi the wife of M. Salvius Otho. To reconquer his
ous intrigues, and for an unbounded ambition. affection, Agrippina employed, but in vain, most
She was accused of having committed incest with daring and nuost revolting means. She threatened
her own brother, the emperor Caius Caligula, 10 oppose Britannicus as a rival to the emperor ;
who under the pretext of having discovered but Britannicus was poisoned by Nero; and she
tbat she had lived in an adulterous intercourse eren solicited her son to an incestuous inter-
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course. At last, ther death was resolved upon the same time as Thmsci, A. v. 67, and was ba-
by Nero, who wished to repudiate Octavia and nished from Italy. (Tac. Ann. xvi. 28, 29, 33. )
marry Poppaca, but whose plan was thwarted He was a Stoic philosopher, and is spoken of with
by his mother. Thus petty feminine intrigues praise by Epictetus (ap. Stob. Serm. 7), and Arrian.
became the cause of Agrippina's ruin. Nero (i. 1. )
invited her under the pretext of a reconciliation A'GRIUS ("Acypios), a son of Porthaon and
to visit him at Baiae, on the coast of Campania. Eurytc, and brother of Oeneus, king of Clydon in
She went thither by sea. In their conversation Actolia, Alcathous, Melns, Leucopeus, and Sterope.
hypocrisy was displayed on both sides. She lle was father of six sons, of whom Thersites was
left Baine by the same way ; but the vessel was onc. These sons of Agrius deprived Deneus of
80 contrived, that it was to break to pieces his kingdom, and gave it to their father; but all of
when out at sea. It only partly broke, and Agrip- them, with the exception of Thersites, were slain
pina saved herself by swimming to the shore ; by Diomedes, the grandson of Oeneus. (Apollod.
her attendant Acerronia was killed. Agrippina i. 7. $ 10, 8. § 5, &c. ) Apollodorus places these
fled to her villa near the Lucrine lake, and inform- events before the expedition of the Greeks against
ed her son of her happy escape. Now, Nero Troy, while Hyginus (Fab, 175, comp. 242 and
charged Burrus to murder his mother ; but Burrus Antonin. Lib. 37) states, that Diomedes, when he
declining it, Anicetus, the commander of the fieet, heard, after the fall of Troy, of the misfortune of
who had invented the stratagem of the ship, was his grandfather Oencus, hastened back and expelled
compelled by Nero and Burrus to undertake the Agrius, who then put an end to his own life; ac-
task. Anicetus went to her villa with a chosen cording to others, Agrius and his sons were slain
band, and his men surprised her in her bedroom. by Diomedes. (Comp. Paus. ii. 25. S 2; Ov. He-
“Ventrem feri” she cried out, after she was but roid. ix. 153.
)
slightly wounded, and immediately afterwards ex- There are some other mythical personages of the
pired under the blows of a centurion. (A. D. 60. ) name of Agrius, concerning whom nothing of inte-
(Tac. Ann. xiv. 8. ) It was told, that Nero went rest is known. (Hesiod. Theog. 1013, &c. ; Apollod.
to the villa, and that he admired the beauty of the i. 6. § 2, ii. 5. § 4. )
(L. S. ]
dead body of his mother : this was believed by AGROECIUS or AGROE'TIUS, à Roman
bome, doubted by others. (xiv. 9. ) Agrippina left grammarian, the author of an extant work “De
commentaries concerning her history and that of Orthographia et Differentia Sermonis," intended as
her family, which Tacitus consulted, according to a supplement to a work on the same subject, by
his own statement. (16. iv. 54 ; comp. Plin. Hist. Flavius Caper, and dedicated to a bishop, Euche-
Nat. vii. 6. s. 8, Elenchus, vii
. &c. )
rius. He is supposed to have lived in the middle
There are several medals of Agrippina, which of the 5th century of our era. His work is printed
are distinguishable from those of her mother by in Putschius' “ Grammaticae Latinae Auctores
the title of Augusta, which those of her mother Antiqui," pp. 2266— 2275. [C. P. M. ]
never have. On some of her medals she is repre- AGROETAS ('Aypoltas), a Greek historian,
sented with her husband Claudius, in others with who wrote a work on Scythia (Ekvouká), from the
her son Nero. The former is the case in the one thirteenth book of which the scholiast on A pollo-
annexed. The words on each side are respectively, nius (ii. 1248) quotes, and one on Libya (Albuká),
AGRIPPINAE AVGVSTAE, and TI CLAVD. CAESAR. the fourth book of which is quoted by the same
AVG. GERM. P. M. TRIB. POT. P. P.
scholiast. (iv. 1396. ) He is also mentioned by
Stephanus Byz. (s. v. 'Autehos. ) (C. P. M. ]
AGRON ("Aypwr). 1. The son of Ninus, the
first of the Lydian dynasty of the Heracleidae.
The tradition was, that this dynasty supplanted a
native race of kings, having been originally en-
trusted with the government as deputies. The
names Ninus and Belus in their genealogy render
it probable that they were either Assyrian gover-
nors, or princes of Assyrian origin, and that their
(Tac. Ann. lib. xii
. xiii. xiv. ; Dion Cass. lib. lix. - accession marks the period of an Assyrian con-
Lxi. ; Sueton. Claud. 43, 44, Nero, 5, 6. ) [W. P. ] quest. (Herod. i. 7. )
AGRIPPI'NUS, Bishop of Carthage, of 2. The son of Pleuratus, a king of Illyria. In
venerable memory, but known for being the first the strength of his land and naval forces he sur-
to maintain the necessity of re-baptizing all passed all the preceding kings of that country.
heretics. (Vincent. Lirinens. Commonit. i. 9. ) St. When the Aetolians attempted to compel the Me-
Cyprian regarded this opinion as the correction of dionians to join their confederacy, Agron under-
an error (S. Augustin. De Baptismo, ii. 7, vol. ix. took to protect them, having been induced to do
p. 102, ed. Bened. ), and St. Augustine seems to so by a large bribe which he received from Deme-
imply he defended his error in writing. (Epist. 93, trius, the father of Philip. He accordingly sent to
c. 10. ) He held the Council of 70 Bishops at their assistance a force of 5000 Illyrians, who
Carthage about A. D. 200 (Vulg. A. D. 215, Mans. gained a decisive victory over the Aetolians.
A. D. 217) on the subject of Baptism. Though he Agron, overjoyed at the news of this success, gave
erred in a matter yet undefined by the Church, St. himself up to feasting, and, in consequence of his ex-
Augustine notices that neither he nor St. Cyprian cess, contracted a pleurisy, of which he died. (B. C.
thought of separating from the Church. (De 231. ) He was succeeded in the government by
Baptismo, iii. 2, p. 109. )
[A. J. C. ] his wife Teuta. Just after bis death, an embassy
AGRIPPI'NUS, PACO'NIUS, whose father arrived from the Romans, who had sent to mediate
was put to death by Tiberius on a charge of trea- in behalf of the inhabitants of the island of Issa,
son. (Suet. Tib. 61. ) Agrippinus was accused at / who had revolted from Agron and placed them-
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selves under the protection of the Romans. By a case of murder, and was so regarded at the time.
his first wiſc, Triteuts, whom he divorced, he had Ahala was brought to trial, and only escaped con-
a son named Pinnes, or Pinneus, who survived demnation by a voluntary exile. (Val. Max. y. 3.
him, and was placed under the guardianship of $ 2; Cic. de Rep. i. 3, pro Dom. 32. ) Livy passes
Demetrius Pharius, who married his mother after over this, and only mentions (iv. 21), that a bill
the death of Teuta. (Dion Cass. xxxiv. 46, 151; was brought in three years afterwards, B. C. 436,
Polyb. ii. 2–4; Appian, IV. 7; Flor. ii. 5; Plin. by another Sp. Maelius, a tribune, for confiscating
II. N. xxxiv. i. )
(C. P. M. ] the property of Ahala, but that it failed.
AGRO'TERA ('Aypotépa), the huntress, a sur- A representation of Ahala is given on a coin of
naine of Artemis. (Hom. Il. xxi. 471. ) At Agrae M. Brutus, the murderer of Caesar, but we cannot
on the Ilissus, where she was believed to bave first suppose it to be anything more than an imaginary
hunted after her arrival from Delos, Artemis Agrotera likeness. M. Brutus pretended that he was des
had a temple with a statue carrying a bow. (Paus. cended from L. Brutus, the first consul, on his
i. 19. & 7. ) Under this name she was also wor- father's side, and from C. Ahala on his mother's,
shipped at Aegeira. (vii. 26. & 2. ) The name and thus was sprung from two tyrannicides.
Agrotera is synonymous with Agraea (AGRAEUS], (Comp. Cic.
lists drawn up by him in the measurement of the Agrippina to such a cowardly measure. When
Roman world under Augustus (AETHICUS), in the troops approached, she went to the bridge,
which he may have taken part.
acting as a general, and receiving the soldiers as
Agrippa left several children. By his first wife they crossed it; the wounded among them were
Pomponia, he had Vipsania, who was married to presented by her with clothes, and they received
Tiberius Caesar, the successor of Augustus. By from her own hands everything necessary for the
his second wife, Marcella, he had several children cure of their wounds. (Tac. Ann. i. 69. ) Ger-
who are not mentioned; and by his third wife, manicus having been recalled by Tiberius, she ac-
Julia, he had two daughters, Julia, married to companied her husband to Asia (A. D. 17), and
L. Aemilius Paullus, and Agrippina married to after his death, or rather murder (GERMANICUS),
Germanicus, and three sons, Caius [CAESAR, C. ], she returned to Italy. She stayed some days at
Lucius (Caesar, L. ], and AGRIPPA Postumus. the island of Corcyra to recover from her grief,
(Dion Cass. lib. 45-54 ; Liv. Epit. 117-136; and then landed at Brundusium, accompanied by
Appian, Bell. Civ. lib. 5; Suet. Octav. ; Frandsen, two of her children, and holding in her arms the
M. Vipsanius Ayrippa, eine historische Untersuchung urn with the ashes of her husband. At the news
über dessen Leben und Wirken, Altona, 1836. ) of her arrival, the port, the walls, and even the
There are several medals of Agrippa : in the one roofs of the houses were occupied by crowds of
figured below, he is represented with a naval people who were anxious to see and salute her.
crown ; on the reverse is Neptune indicating his She was solemnly received by the officers of two
success by sen
[W. P. ] Praetorian cohorts, which Tiberius had sent to
Brundusium for the purpose of accompanying her
to Rome; the urn containing the ashes of Germa-
nicus was borne by tribunes and centurions, and
the funeral procession was received on its march
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by the magistrates of Calnbria, Apulia, and Cam-
pania ; by Drusus, the son of Tiberius; Claudius,
the brother of Germanicus ; by the other children
of Germanicus; and at last, in the environs of
Rome, by the consuls, the senate, and crowds of
the Roman people. (Tac. Ann. iii, 1, &c. )
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During some years 'Tiberius disguised his hatred | with M. Aemilius Lepidus, the husband of
of Agrippina ; but she soun became exposed to her sister Drusilla, banished her to the island of
secret accusations and intrigues. She asked the Pontia, which was situated opposite the bay of
emperor's permission to choose another husband, Caieta, off the coast of Italy. Her sister Drusilla
but 'Tiberius neither refused nor consented to the was likewise banished to Pontia, and it seeins
proposition. Sejanus, who exercised an unbound that their exile was connected with the punish-
ed influence over Tiberius, then a prey to mental ment of Lepidus, who was put to death for having
disorders, persunded Agrippina that the emperor conspired against the emperor. Previonsly to her
intended to poison her. Alarmed at such a report, exile, Agrippina was compelled by her brother
she refused to eat an apple which the emperor to carry to Rome the ashes of Lepidus. This
offered her from his taule, and Tiberius in his happened in A. D. 39. Agrippina and her sister
turn complained of Agrippina regarding him were released in A. D. 41, by their uncle, Clau-
as a poisoner. According to Suetonius, all this dius, iinmediately after bis accession, although
was an intrigue preconceried between the emperor his wife, Messalina, was the mortal enemy
and Sennus, who, as it seems, had formed the of Agrippina. Messalina was put to death by
plan of leading Agrippina into false steps. Tibe order of Claudius in A. D. 48 ; and in the follow-
rius was extremely suspicious of Agrippina, and ing year, a. D. 49, Agrippina succeeded in mar.
shewed his hostile fealings by allusive words or rying the emperor. Claudins was her uncle, but
neglectful silence. There were no evidences of her marriage was legalized by a senatusconsul-
ambitious plans formed by Agrippina, but the cum, by which the marriage of a man with bis
rumour having been spread that she would fly to brother's daughter was declared valid ; this scnatus-
the army, he banished her to the island of Pan- consultum was afterwards abr ted by the emper
dataria (A. D. 30) where her mother Julia had ors Constantine and Constans. In this intrigue
died in exile. Her sons Nero and Drusus were Agrippina displayed the qualities of an accomplished
likewise banished and both died an unnatural courtezan, and such was the influence of her charms
death. She lived three years on that barren and superior talents over the old emperor, that, in
island; at last she refused to take any food, prejudice of his own son, Britannicus, he adopt-
and died most probably by voluntary starvation. ed Domitius, the son of Agrippina by her first
Her death took place precisely two years after and husband, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus. (A. D. 51. )
on the same date as the murder of Sejanus, that is Agrippina was assisted in her secret plans by
in A. D. 33. Tacitus and Suetonius tell us, that Pallas, the perfidious contidant of Claudius. By
Tiberius boasted that he had not strangled ber. her intrigues, L. Junius Silanus, the husband of
(Sueton. Tib. 53; Tac. Ann. vi. 25. ) The ashes Octaviin the daughter of Claudius, was put to
of Agrippina and those of her son Nero were death, and in a. D. 53, Octavia was married to
afterwards brought to Rome by order of her son, young Nero. Lollia Paullina, once the rival of
the emperor Caligula, who struck various medals in Agrippina for the hand of the emperor, was accused
honour of his mother. In the one figured below, of high treason and condemned in death; but she
the head of Caligula is on one side and that of his put an end to her own life. Domitia Lepiaa, the
mother on the other. The words on each side are sister of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, met with a
respectively, C. CAESAR. AVG. GER. P. K. TR. PUT. , sinuilar fate. After having tbus removed those
and AGRIPPINA. MAT. C. CAES. AVG. GERM. whose rivalship she dreaded, or whose virtues she
envied, Agrippina resolved to get rid of ber hus-
band, and to govern the empire through her ascen-
dency over her son Nero, his successor. A vague
rumour of this reached the emperor; in a state of
drunkenness, he forgot prudence, and talked about
punishing his ambitious wife. Having no time to
lose, Agrippina, assisted by Locusta and Xenophon,
a Greek physician, poisoned the old emperor, in
(Tac. Ann. i. -vi. ; Sueton. Octav. 64, Tih. l. c. , A. D. 54, at Sinuessa, a watering-place to which
Calig. 1. c. ; Dion. Cass. lvii. 5, 6, lviii. 22. ) [W. P] he had retired for the sake of his health. Nero
AGRIPPI'NA 11. , the daughter of Germani- was proclaimed emperor, and presented to the
cus and Agrippina the elder, daughter of M. troops by Burtus, whom Agrippina had appointed
Vipsanius Agrippa. She was born between A. D. praefectus praetorio. Narcissus, the rich freedman
13 and 17, at the Oppidum Ubiorum, afterwards of Claudius, M. Junius Silanus, proconsul of Asia,
called in honour of her Colonia Agrippina, now the brother of L. Junius Silanus, and a great.
Cologne, and then the head-quarters of the legions grandson of Augustus, lost their lives at the insti-
commanded by her father. In a. D. 28, she mar- gation of Agrippina, who would have augmented
ried Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, a man not un- the number of her victims, but for the opposition
like her, and whom she lost in A. D. 40. After of Burrus and Senect, recalled by Agrippina from
his death she married Crispus Passienus, who died his exile to conduct the education of Nero. Mean-
some years afterwards ; and she was accused of hav. while, the young emperor took some steps to shake
ing poisoned him, either for the purpose of obtain: off the insupportable ascendency of his mother.
ing his great fortune, or for some secret motive of The jealousy of Agrippina rose from her son's pas
much higher importance. She was already known sion for Acte, and, after her, for Poppaea Sabina,
for her scandalous conduct, for her most perfidi the wife of M. Salvius Otho. To reconquer his
ous intrigues, and for an unbounded ambition. affection, Agrippina employed, but in vain, most
She was accused of having committed incest with daring and nuost revolting means. She threatened
her own brother, the emperor Caius Caligula, 10 oppose Britannicus as a rival to the emperor ;
who under the pretext of having discovered but Britannicus was poisoned by Nero; and she
tbat she had lived in an adulterous intercourse eren solicited her son to an incestuous inter-
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course. At last, ther death was resolved upon the same time as Thmsci, A. v. 67, and was ba-
by Nero, who wished to repudiate Octavia and nished from Italy. (Tac. Ann. xvi. 28, 29, 33. )
marry Poppaca, but whose plan was thwarted He was a Stoic philosopher, and is spoken of with
by his mother. Thus petty feminine intrigues praise by Epictetus (ap. Stob. Serm. 7), and Arrian.
became the cause of Agrippina's ruin. Nero (i. 1. )
invited her under the pretext of a reconciliation A'GRIUS ("Acypios), a son of Porthaon and
to visit him at Baiae, on the coast of Campania. Eurytc, and brother of Oeneus, king of Clydon in
She went thither by sea. In their conversation Actolia, Alcathous, Melns, Leucopeus, and Sterope.
hypocrisy was displayed on both sides. She lle was father of six sons, of whom Thersites was
left Baine by the same way ; but the vessel was onc. These sons of Agrius deprived Deneus of
80 contrived, that it was to break to pieces his kingdom, and gave it to their father; but all of
when out at sea. It only partly broke, and Agrip- them, with the exception of Thersites, were slain
pina saved herself by swimming to the shore ; by Diomedes, the grandson of Oeneus. (Apollod.
her attendant Acerronia was killed. Agrippina i. 7. $ 10, 8. § 5, &c. ) Apollodorus places these
fled to her villa near the Lucrine lake, and inform- events before the expedition of the Greeks against
ed her son of her happy escape. Now, Nero Troy, while Hyginus (Fab, 175, comp. 242 and
charged Burrus to murder his mother ; but Burrus Antonin. Lib. 37) states, that Diomedes, when he
declining it, Anicetus, the commander of the fieet, heard, after the fall of Troy, of the misfortune of
who had invented the stratagem of the ship, was his grandfather Oencus, hastened back and expelled
compelled by Nero and Burrus to undertake the Agrius, who then put an end to his own life; ac-
task. Anicetus went to her villa with a chosen cording to others, Agrius and his sons were slain
band, and his men surprised her in her bedroom. by Diomedes. (Comp. Paus. ii. 25. S 2; Ov. He-
“Ventrem feri” she cried out, after she was but roid. ix. 153.
)
slightly wounded, and immediately afterwards ex- There are some other mythical personages of the
pired under the blows of a centurion. (A. D. 60. ) name of Agrius, concerning whom nothing of inte-
(Tac. Ann. xiv. 8. ) It was told, that Nero went rest is known. (Hesiod. Theog. 1013, &c. ; Apollod.
to the villa, and that he admired the beauty of the i. 6. § 2, ii. 5. § 4. )
(L. S. ]
dead body of his mother : this was believed by AGROECIUS or AGROE'TIUS, à Roman
bome, doubted by others. (xiv. 9. ) Agrippina left grammarian, the author of an extant work “De
commentaries concerning her history and that of Orthographia et Differentia Sermonis," intended as
her family, which Tacitus consulted, according to a supplement to a work on the same subject, by
his own statement. (16. iv. 54 ; comp. Plin. Hist. Flavius Caper, and dedicated to a bishop, Euche-
Nat. vii. 6. s. 8, Elenchus, vii
. &c. )
rius. He is supposed to have lived in the middle
There are several medals of Agrippina, which of the 5th century of our era. His work is printed
are distinguishable from those of her mother by in Putschius' “ Grammaticae Latinae Auctores
the title of Augusta, which those of her mother Antiqui," pp. 2266— 2275. [C. P. M. ]
never have. On some of her medals she is repre- AGROETAS ('Aypoltas), a Greek historian,
sented with her husband Claudius, in others with who wrote a work on Scythia (Ekvouká), from the
her son Nero. The former is the case in the one thirteenth book of which the scholiast on A pollo-
annexed. The words on each side are respectively, nius (ii. 1248) quotes, and one on Libya (Albuká),
AGRIPPINAE AVGVSTAE, and TI CLAVD. CAESAR. the fourth book of which is quoted by the same
AVG. GERM. P. M. TRIB. POT. P. P.
scholiast. (iv. 1396. ) He is also mentioned by
Stephanus Byz. (s. v. 'Autehos. ) (C. P. M. ]
AGRON ("Aypwr). 1. The son of Ninus, the
first of the Lydian dynasty of the Heracleidae.
The tradition was, that this dynasty supplanted a
native race of kings, having been originally en-
trusted with the government as deputies. The
names Ninus and Belus in their genealogy render
it probable that they were either Assyrian gover-
nors, or princes of Assyrian origin, and that their
(Tac. Ann. lib. xii
. xiii. xiv. ; Dion Cass. lib. lix. - accession marks the period of an Assyrian con-
Lxi. ; Sueton. Claud. 43, 44, Nero, 5, 6. ) [W. P. ] quest. (Herod. i. 7. )
AGRIPPI'NUS, Bishop of Carthage, of 2. The son of Pleuratus, a king of Illyria. In
venerable memory, but known for being the first the strength of his land and naval forces he sur-
to maintain the necessity of re-baptizing all passed all the preceding kings of that country.
heretics. (Vincent. Lirinens. Commonit. i. 9. ) St. When the Aetolians attempted to compel the Me-
Cyprian regarded this opinion as the correction of dionians to join their confederacy, Agron under-
an error (S. Augustin. De Baptismo, ii. 7, vol. ix. took to protect them, having been induced to do
p. 102, ed. Bened. ), and St. Augustine seems to so by a large bribe which he received from Deme-
imply he defended his error in writing. (Epist. 93, trius, the father of Philip. He accordingly sent to
c. 10. ) He held the Council of 70 Bishops at their assistance a force of 5000 Illyrians, who
Carthage about A. D. 200 (Vulg. A. D. 215, Mans. gained a decisive victory over the Aetolians.
A. D. 217) on the subject of Baptism. Though he Agron, overjoyed at the news of this success, gave
erred in a matter yet undefined by the Church, St. himself up to feasting, and, in consequence of his ex-
Augustine notices that neither he nor St. Cyprian cess, contracted a pleurisy, of which he died. (B. C.
thought of separating from the Church. (De 231. ) He was succeeded in the government by
Baptismo, iii. 2, p. 109. )
[A. J. C. ] his wife Teuta. Just after bis death, an embassy
AGRIPPI'NUS, PACO'NIUS, whose father arrived from the Romans, who had sent to mediate
was put to death by Tiberius on a charge of trea- in behalf of the inhabitants of the island of Issa,
son. (Suet. Tib. 61. ) Agrippinus was accused at / who had revolted from Agron and placed them-
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selves under the protection of the Romans. By a case of murder, and was so regarded at the time.
his first wiſc, Triteuts, whom he divorced, he had Ahala was brought to trial, and only escaped con-
a son named Pinnes, or Pinneus, who survived demnation by a voluntary exile. (Val. Max. y. 3.
him, and was placed under the guardianship of $ 2; Cic. de Rep. i. 3, pro Dom. 32. ) Livy passes
Demetrius Pharius, who married his mother after over this, and only mentions (iv. 21), that a bill
the death of Teuta. (Dion Cass. xxxiv. 46, 151; was brought in three years afterwards, B. C. 436,
Polyb. ii. 2–4; Appian, IV. 7; Flor. ii. 5; Plin. by another Sp. Maelius, a tribune, for confiscating
II. N. xxxiv. i. )
(C. P. M. ] the property of Ahala, but that it failed.
AGRO'TERA ('Aypotépa), the huntress, a sur- A representation of Ahala is given on a coin of
naine of Artemis. (Hom. Il. xxi. 471. ) At Agrae M. Brutus, the murderer of Caesar, but we cannot
on the Ilissus, where she was believed to bave first suppose it to be anything more than an imaginary
hunted after her arrival from Delos, Artemis Agrotera likeness. M. Brutus pretended that he was des
had a temple with a statue carrying a bow. (Paus. cended from L. Brutus, the first consul, on his
i. 19. & 7. ) Under this name she was also wor- father's side, and from C. Ahala on his mother's,
shipped at Aegeira. (vii. 26. & 2. ) The name and thus was sprung from two tyrannicides.
Agrotera is synonymous with Agraea (AGRAEUS], (Comp. Cic.
