Poppaea Sabina
Americannoun
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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
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)
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)
Josephus used his acquaintance to obtain an introduction to Poppaea Sabina, the Emperor's wife for the time.
From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman
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
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