Agrippina in stubborn rage, with the grasp of disease yet on her,
when the emperor came to see her, wept long and
silently, and then began
to mingle reproach and supplication. She begged him
"to relieve her loneliness
and provide her with a husband; her youth still
fitted her for marriage,
which was a virtuous woman's only solace, and there
were citizens in Rome
who would not disdain to receive the wife of
Germanicus and his children."
But the emperor, who perceived the |