Poppaea Sabina
Americannoun
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By this step he offended Marcus Salvius Otho, the onetime husband of Nero’s wife Poppaea Sabina, who had been one of Galba’s staunch adherents and hoped to succeed him.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Nero, after the death of Octavia, married Poppaea Sabina.
From Remarks by Nye, Bill
At this time Agrippina, as the just consequence of her many crimes, was regarded by all classes with a fanaticism of hatred which in Poppaea Sabina was intensified by manifest self-interest.
From Seekers after God by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
Poppaea Sabina, for whom Nero entertained such a violent passion that he had taken her from her husband 674 and entrusted her to him, he received, and went through the form of marrying her.
From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius
The definitive break with his mother and with her political ideas,—that is, with the ideas which had been professed by her ancestors,—came in 58, when Nero forgot Acte for Poppaea Sabina.
From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo
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