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Notes Display Latin text | Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Book XVI Chapter 6: Death of Poppaea[AD 65] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
After the conclusion of the games Poppaea died from a casual outburst of rage in her husband, who felled her with a kick when she was pregnant. That there was poison I cannot believe, though some writers so relate, from hatred rather than from belief, for the emperor was desirous of children, and wholly swayed by love of his wife. Her body was not consumed by fire according to Roman usage, but after the custom of foreign princes was filled with fragrant spices and embalmed, and then consigned to the sepulchre of the Julii. She had, however, a public funeral, and Nero himself from the rostra eulogized her beauty, her lot in having been the mother of a deified child and fortune's other gifts, as though they were virtues. Event: Death of Poppaea |