| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Agrippina |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ag·rip·pi·na |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   g r -p  n, -p - |
| DATES: | a.d. 15?–59 |
| VARIANTS: | Known as “the Younger.” |
| Roman empress. She murdered her husband, the emperor Claudius, so that her son by a previous marriage, Nero, would become emperor. Nero, distrusting his mother, had her murdered.
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