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Octavia

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  • ACT I.
  1: GENITRIX. - Urgulanilla and Aelia Paetina were divorced by Claudius before he married Messalina. M[...]
  2: NOVERCA. - The marriage of Claudius with Agrippina was regarded in Rome, as an incestuous marriage[...]
  3: ELECTRA. - Sophocles has alluded copiously to the weeping of Electra, and her strong desire for th[...]
  4: SUBJECTA FAMULAE. - Seneca constantly uses this word and in very different senses. Poppaea was not[...]
  5: SILANUS. - Silanus was not killed, but committed suicide, the same day that Claudius married Agrip[...]
  6: VIDIMUS COELO JUBAR. - Tacitus alludes to this comet, and Seneca in the Quaest: Natur.



  • ACT II.
  7: REMOTUS. - Seneca had been accused of adultery with Julia, the daughter of Germanicus, and was exp[...]
  8: PLAUTI SULLAEQUE. - Plautus Rabellius had been exiled into Asia, and Sulla into Narbonensian Gaul:[...]
  9: PAVERE. - It was at Philippi, where a great battle was fought by Octavius and Antony, against Brut[...]



  • ACT IV.
  10: CULPA SENECAE. - I think that the rendering I have given of the word “Culpa”, represents the poet’[...]



  • ACT V.
  11: MISERANDA PARENS. - This unfortunate woman was Cornelia, the daughter of Scipio Africanus, and bei[...]
  12: TE QUOQUE LIVI. - The tribune Livius Drusus, established great reforms in the laws. He was assassi[...]
  13: LIVIA. - Livia poisoned her husband, Drusus.
  14: JULIA. - Julia, the daughter of Livia, was accused of complicity in the poisoning of Drusus, but i[...]
  15: TAURORUM. - The Tauri were a people of Scythia, and they sacrificed strangers on the altars of Dia[...]



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