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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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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

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

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

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

From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman

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