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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 325

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was the cause of his downfall.Agrippina was an unwise mother-in-law. She becameso obnoxious to Poppsea, whose influence over Neroincreased every day, and to Nero himself, who sidedwith his young wife, that an estrangement took place.Nero would avoid her presence and deny speech to her;and Agrippina… … A view of the Villa Quiiitiliorum, now ^lomlragone herself ))y a morganatic marriage, the second in heradventurous career. The wealth of Passienus was thecause of his death; he be(|ueathed it to his august vrife,and she secured possession of it without waiting forthe natural course of events, by…

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