General who defeated Antony and Cleopatra

Usage examples of agrippa.

Marcellus was thought by a few shrewd observers to be that of making Agrippa jealous.

It was now thought by these same shrewd observers that Livia was playing a very dangerous game in making Agrippa jealous of Marcellus, and events were watched with great interest.

Perhaps her devotion to Marcellus was a sham and her real intention was that Agrippa should be goaded into putting nim out of the way.

Marcellus and kill him: but that Agrippa, though he was no less jealous than Livia had intended him to be, was too honourable to accept such a base suggestion.

He tried to carry the matter off by being pointedly rude to Agrippa at a public banquet.

Marcellus was the offended and Agrippa wished to put the whole burden OB him.

Augustus, who had himself been greatly disturbed by it, torn between old friendship for Agrippa and indulgent paternal love for Marcellus, did not allow himself to consider how generously Agrippa was behaving, for that would have been a confession of his own weakness, and so made no reference to the matter either.

There would certainly have been civil war again between him and Agrippa if Augustus had died and he had attempted to step into his place: now Agrippa was the only possible successor.

But Agrippa had been nursing his grudge too long to be grateful for this summons.

Augustus, fearing that Agrippa, if he went to Rome in his present mood, would be more inclined to put himself forward as a champion of popular liberties than to support the Imperial government, dismissed him with words of gracious regret and hurriedly summoned Maecenas to ask his advice.

He wished Livia were present to advise him, but there was no escape from an instant decision: if he offended Agrippa now he would never recover his support.

He sent for Agrippa again, and Maecenas staged a dignified scene of reconciliation.

I am compelled to report that the boy Agrippa Postumus is inclined to display a savage, domineering and intractable temper.

I also believe that there were no grounds for the charges made against her many years later, of infidelity to Agrippa while she was married to him.

Augustus himself is of opinion that this is the safest course to take, for Postumus is ambitious: the same sort of uncomfortable situation must not arise as when the young nobles supported Marcellus against Agrippa or Gaius against Tiberius.