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Latin
Suetonius - Section G
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| uxores praeter Octaviam duas postea duxit, Poppaeam Sabinam quaestorio patre natam et equiti Romano antea nuptam. | Afterwards, he married two wives beside Octavia, Poppaea Sabina, the daughter of a father, a former quaestor and previously married to a Roman knight. |
| deinde Statiliam Messalinam Tauri bis consulis ac triumphalis abneptem. | Then he married Statilia Messalina, great-great granddaughter of Taurus, twice consul and had celebrated a triumph. |
| qua ut poteretur, virum eius Atticum Vestinum consulem in honore ipso trucidavit. | In order to acquire her, he murdered her husband, the consul Atticus Vestinus, when he was in office. |
| Octaviae consuetudinem cito aspernatus, corripientibus amicis 'sufficere illi debere' respondit 'uxoria ornamenta.' | Having quickly rejected intimacy with Octavia, he responded to his friends who were criticising him, "The trappings of a wife ought to be enough for her". |
| eandem mox saepe frustra strangulare meditatus, dimisit ut sterilem, | Soon, having often considered strangling this same woman in vain, he divorced her as unable to have children. |
| sed improbante divortium populo nec parcente conviciis, etiam relegavit, denique occidit sub crimine adulteriorum | But since the people were disapproving of the divorce and did not hold back from complaints, he also exiled her, and finally he killed her on a charge of adultery |
| adeo impudenti falsoque, ut in quaestione pernegantibus cunctis Anicetum paedagogum suum indicem subiecerit, qui fingeret dolo stupratam a se fateretur. | so shameless and false that, with everyone strongly denying [her guilt] under torture, he bribed Anicetus, his own tutor, to falsely confess that she was defiled by him, by a trick. |
| Poppaeam duodecimo die post divortium Octaviae in matrimonium acceptam dilexit unice; et tamen ipsam quoque ictu calcis occidit, | On the twelfth day after his divorce of Octavia, he married Poppaea, who he loved a great deal; however, he even killed her too, with a kick of his heel, |
| quod se ex aurigatione sero reversum gravida et aegra conviciis incesserat. | because she had approached him with complaints, pregnant and ill, when he returned late from a chariot race. |
| ex hac filiam tulit Claudiam Augustam amisitque admodum infantem. | From this woman he had a daughter, Claudia Augusta, and he lost her as a very young child. |
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