Chapter 9 Flashcards
Haec consensu produntur. aspexeritne matrem exanimem Nero et formam corporis eius laudaverit, sunt qui tradiderint, sunt qui abnuant. cremata est nocte eadem convivali lecto et exequiis vilibus; neque, dum Nero rerum potiebatur, congesta est aut clausa humus.
These things are recorded in agreement. As to whether Nero looked at his dead mother and praised the beauty of her corpse, there are these who hand it down as tradition and others who rejects. She burned on the same night on a dinner party and with cheap funeral rights. While Nero was maintained control, the ground was not heaped up or close.
mox domesticorum cura levem tumulum accepit, viam Miseni propter et villam Caesaris dictatoris, quae subiectos sinus editissima prospectat. accenso rogo libertus eius cognomento Mnester [se] ipse ferro transegit, incertum caritate in patronam an metu exitii.
Soon she received a trivial tomb with the effort of her personal slave, near the road to Misenum and the house of Caesar the dictator, which being very lofty gazed down at the bays below. With the pyre having been set alight, her freedman with the surname of Mnester pierced himself with a sword, it is uncertain whether it was out of love to his patroness or the fear of destruction.
hunc sui finem multos ante annos crediderat Agrippina contempseratque. nam consulenti super Nerone responderunt Chaldaei fore ut imperaret matremque occideret; atque illa “occidat” inquit, “dum imperet.”
Agrippina had believed that this would be her end many years before and despised it. For when she consulted the astrologers around Nero, they responded that he would rule as emperor and kill his mother; and she said, ‘Let him kill as long as he rules.’
