ARGUMENT.

CLAUDIUS DRUSUS CAESAR (Messalina, because she had married Silius, being condemned to die - she had borne him (Caesar) Britannicus and Octavia) took to himself, for a fourth wife (he had divorced Urgulanilla and Aelia Paetina before he married Messalina). Agrippina, the daughter of his brother Germanicus, and the widow of Cn. Domitius Aenobarbus Nero, to whose son, he gave his daughter Octavia in marriage. Claudius and Britannicus being poisoned, Nero, then Emperor, divorces Octavia, whom he had always hated, and marries Poppaea Sabina; in consequence of which divorce he had to put down the riots amongst the populace amidst great slaughter, and he orders Octavia to be transported to Pandataria, and there to be slain.