Agrippa

American

[uh-grip-uh] / əˈgrɪp ə /

noun

Marcus Vipsanius 63–12 b.c., Roman statesman, general, and engineer: defeated Antony and Cleopatra at Actium.

Agrippa British

/ əˈɡrɪpə /

noun

Marcus Vipsanius (ˈmɑːkəs vɪpˈseɪnɪəs). 63–12 _bc , Roman general: chief adviser and later son-in-law of Augustus

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Octavius and Agrippa were devastated, as the novel narrates, but they learned more shocking news.

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This earned Agrippa the gratitude of his friend’s great-uncle, Julius Caesar, the conqueror of Gaul and dictator of Rome.

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Caesar affected to disdain high office but in 27 B.C. maneuvered the Senate into bestowing upon him, as Agrippa relates, “the dignified honorific of Augustus—‘the Revered One’—close to, but not quite, divine.”

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Agrippa, a brilliant warrior on land, proves as formidable at sea.

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“Oh, of course, you wouldn’t know — Chocolate Frogs have cards inside them, you know, to collect — famous witches and wizards. I’ve got about five hundred, but I haven’t got Agrippa or Ptolemy.”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

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