Agrippīna

, a wife of Tiberius. The emperor repudiated her to marry Julia. Suet on i us , Tiberias , ch. 7 .――A daughter of Marcus Agrippa, and granddaughter to August us. She married Germanic us, whom she accompanied in Syria; and when Piso poisoned him, she carried his ashes to Italy, and accused his murderer, who stabbed himself. She fell under the displeasure of Tiberius, who exiled her in an island, where she died A.D. 26, for want of bread. She left nine children, and was universally distinguished for intrepidity and conjugal affection. Tacitus , bk. 1 , Annals , ch. 2 , . — Suet on i us , Tiberias , ch. 52 .――Julia, daughter of Germanic us and A grip pin a, married Domitius Ænobarbus, by whom she had Nero. After her husband’s death she married her uncle the emperor Claudius, whom she destroyed to make Nero succeed to the throne. After many cruelties and much licentiousne she was a a inated by order of her son, and as she expired she exclaimed, “Strike the belly which could give birth to such a monster.” She died A.D. 59, after a life of prostitution and incestuous gratifications. It is said that her son viewed her dead body with all the raptures of admiration, saying, he never could have believed his mother was so beautiful a woman. She left memoirs which a isted Tacitus in the composition of his annals. The town which she built, where she was born, on the borders of the Rhine, and called A grip pin a Coloni a , is the modern Cologne. Tacitus , Annals , bk. 4 , ch. 75 ; bk. 12 , chs. 7, 22, .