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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Agrippina Biography AGRIPPINA. The daughter of M. Vipsanius Agrippa (q.v.) and Julia, daughter of Augustus. She was one of the most heroic and virtuous women of antiquity. She was married to Germanicus (see GERMANICUS CÆSAR), whom she accompanied in all his campaigns. Tiberius, who hated her for her virtues and the esteem in which she was held by the people, banished her to the island of Pandataria, near Naples, where she voluntarily died of hunger (33 A.D.). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. I (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 261. |