Caesar by birth, not by adoption, as the preceding emperors had been, and as Nero would be, if he succeeded.
Tacitus informs us, that the poison was prepared by Locusta, of whom we shall hear, NERO, c. xxxiii. etc.
A.U.C. 806; A.D. 54.
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