Definition of Agrippina the younger

1. Noun. Wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero.

Exact synonyms: Agrippina
Generic synonyms: Roman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Agrippina The Younger

Agra
Agrabad
Agricola
Agriculture Department
Agriculture Secretary
Agrigento
Agrimonia eupatoria
Agrimonia procera
Agrinio
Agrinion
Agriocharis
Agriocharis ocellata
Agrippa
Agrippina
Agrippina the Elder
Agrippina the Younger
Agrobacterium tumifaciens
Agropyron
Agropyron cristatum
Agropyron intermedium
Agropyron pauciflorum
Agropyron repens
Agropyron smithii
Agropyron subsecundum
Agropyron trachycaulum
Agrostemma
Agrostemma githago
Agrostis
Agrostis alba
Agrostis canina

Literary usage of Agrippina the younger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Coin Collector's Manual: Comprising an Historical and Critical Account by Henry Noel Humphreys (1897)
"Agrippina the Younger, sister of Caligula and fourth wife of Claudius. ... Some of them represent him witb Agrippina the Younger. , first wife of Nero, ..."

2. Medieval and Modern History: An Outline of Its Development by George Burton Adams (1902)
"A CAMEO Claudius, Agrippina the Younger, Livia, and Tiberius was killed and his army annihilated by the Germans under Arminius, or Hermann, in the battle of ..."

3. A Smaller History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of by William Smith (1899)
"Next year Claudius married his niece agrippina the younger. She set herself to win power in every way, and induced Claudius to adopt her son L. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Agrippina had a large family by Germanicus, several of whom died young, while only two are of importance— Agrippina the " younger " and Gaius Caesar, ..."

5. The Coinages of the World: Ancient and Modern by George D. Mathews (1876)
"Born 42 AD ; was poisoned by Nero 55 AD Br.—R. 8 Lucius Domitius NERO, the younger son of Cnaeus Domitius Ah- enobarbus and Agrippina the Younger; ..."

6. The Numismatic Circularby Spink & Son by Spink & Son (1908)
"... Fausta, Constantius I, Helena, Jovianus II, Sextus Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa, Tiberius, Britan- nicus, agrippina the younger, Domitia, Plotina, Pertinax, ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... the Emperor Caligula ; and one of the daughters, agrippina the younger, by her marriage with a Roman nobleman, became the mother of the Emperor Nero. ..."

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