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66.
In tanta mole curarum valetudine adversa corripitur,
refovendisque viribus mollitia caeli et salubritate aquarum
Sinuessam pergit. tum Agrippina, sceleris olim certa et
oblatae occasionis propera nec ministrorum egens, de
genere veneni consultavit, ne repentino et praecipiti facinus
proderetur; si lentum et tabidum delegisset, ne admotus
supremis Claudius et dolo intellecto ad amorem filii
rediret. exquisitum aliquid placebat, quod turbaret mentem
et mortem differret. deligitur artifex talium vocabulo
Locusta, nuper veneficii damnata et diu inter instrumenta
regni habita. eius mulieris ingenio paratum virus, cuius
minister e spadonibus fuit Halotus, inferre epulas et
explorare gustu solitus.
Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
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