Poppaea Sabina

[po-pee-uh suh-bahy-nuh, -bee-]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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After he had fallen in love with Poppaea Sabina, Nero, who up to that time had shown no considerable initiative in affairs of state, elaborated and proposed to the senate many revolutionary projects for favoring the populace.

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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.

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Josephus used his acquaintance to obtain an introduction to Poppaea Sabina, the Emperor's wife for the time.

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

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