Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), B, Books and the Book Trade, Britannĭcus

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Britannĭcus

The agnomen of the son of the emperor Claudius by Messalina, and born in A.D. 42. Agrippina, the second wife of Claudius, induced the emperor to adopt her own son Nero, and to give him precedence in the succession. On the assumption of imperial power by Nero, Britannicus was put to death by poison (A.D. 55). His story is the subject of a play by Racine.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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