Poppaea Sabina
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Nero had now fallen into a deep infatuation for Poppaea Sabina, the beautiful wife of Otho, and she refused him her hand so long as he was still under the control of his mother.
From Seekers after God by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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
Josephus used his acquaintance to obtain an introduction to Poppaea Sabina, the Emperor's wife for the time.
From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman
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
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)
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