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Poppaea Sabina

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[po-pee-uh suh-bahy-nuh, -bee-] / pɒˈpi ə səˈbaɪ nə, -ˈbi- /

noun

  1. died a.d. 65?, second wife of the Roman emperor Nero.


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Nero, after the death of Octavia, married Poppaea Sabina.

From Remarks by Nye, Bill

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)

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

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

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

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