most unjust manner seized upon the citadel ot Thebes, an action abetted by Agesilaus from his hatred to the Thebans and his acquiescence in that detestable policy of Sparta, which deemed every action laudable that might prove beneficial to the state. In the foregoing instance however it turned out quite the reverse, as ic led to the memorable war with the Thebans under Epaminondas, in which the victories of Leuctra and Mantinea proved so humiliating to Sparta, in the defence of which however Agesilaus exhibited all his usual bravery and activity. His passion for enterprize was further displayed by his accepting the command of a body of mercenaries in the service of Tachos, a competitor for the throne of Egypt, and engaging at an advanced age in an entirely new scene of action. On his arrival in Egypt, the natives eagerly crowded to behold a leader of whom they had heard so much, and in Suffolk. He died in London A.D. 1579. aged about 60.- Ames. Hist. of Printing. AGIS IV, king of Sparta, celebrated by his virtues and his death, was scarcely on the throne before he endeavoured to revive the ancient discipline of his country, and began with a proposition for a division of the land, which was strongly opposed by a party at the head of which was his colleague Leonidas. The latter, being persecuted for a breach of the laws by marrying a stranger, was deposed, and the joint sovereignty devolved to his son Cleombrotus, who entered into the views of Agis. Previously however to a partition of the lands, Agesilaus, who was deeply in debt, proposed the abolition of all debts, which would render the former measure more palatable. This proposal was agreed to, and al bonds and contracts were brought to the marketplace and consigned to what Agesilaus deno could not conceal their disappointment on minated a glorious flame." This deed acdiscovering a little old man, meanly clad, sit-complished, the influential and wily Spartan ting on the grass by the sea-side. He soon found means to postpone the other equalizing however convinced them of his superiority, but sullied both his own and the Grecian reputation by going over on more advantageous terms to the other competitor, Nectanebis, whom he left firmly seated on the Egyptian throne. Returning with a large sum on the public account for the aid which he had afforded, he was driven by a storm to a place called the haven of Menelaus, on the coast of Africa, where he died in his eighty-fourth year (B.C. 360), after a reign of forty-one years. From this brief account, it will be seen that the virtues and vices of Agesilaus were altogether national, and the fruit of the iron education of his overpraised country, the operation of which his character peculiarly served to illustrate. His most censurable actions and policy seem never to have been produced with a view to mere personal advantage or aggrandizement, a truth which by no means detracts from the odious nature of the system by which They were deemed patriotic. Agesilaus, in other respects, exhibited the peculiar genius operation until Agis was obliged to march on an expedition. During his absence Agesilaus conducted himself so tyrannically, that a conspiracy was formed to restore the deposed king Leonidas; which succeeding, Agis, on his return, together with his colleague Cleombrotus, took sanctuar in a temple. Cleombrotus was immediately dragged forth and banished, but Agis remained a considerable time in safety, and was occasionally conducted by his supporters to the bath, and thence back again to the temple. At length his friends were bribed to betray him, and he was thrown into prison. When it was known that he was in custody, a crowd of people, with his mother and grandmother, assembled round the prison, and requested that he might have a fair and open trial. This solicitude hastened the fate of Agis, who suffered death with great magnanimity. His grandmother, being afterwards admitted into the prison, shared his fate. His mother followed next, and perceiving the fate of her son and mother, kissed the corpse of of his countrymen, by ekeing out the lion's skin | Agis and exclaimed, "My son, thy too great with the fox's tail, by the extreme simplicity of his manners, by his contempt of luxury and vain-glory, and by the pregnant brevity of his wit. In the collection of apothegms, a number are attributed to this king, which display the genuine Spartan force and smartness. His pleasant reply to a friend, who caught him riding a stick with his children, is well known. "Tell nobody what you have seen" said Agesilaus, "until you are yourself a father."Plutarch. Univ. Hist. moderation and humanity have ruined both us and thee." Being told that, as she approved his actions, she must also die, she immediately prepared for death, exclaiming, " May all this be for the good of Sparta!" The virtues and good intentions of Agis are not to be doubted, but primitive forms and simple institutions can seldom be restored to a gradually corrupted people. These tragical events happened B.C. 241.-Plutarch. AGNELLUS, an archbishop of Ravenna in the ninth century, who wrote the history of his predecessors in that see with little attention to the character or interests of the court of Rome, which had put his grandfather or great-grandfather to death. This biography contains many curious facts, but is erroneous in regard to dates. It was published by Bacchini in 1708, and reprinted by Muratori in his collection of Italian historians. Moreri. AGGAS (RALPH) a surveyor and engraver of the sixteenth century, who first drew a plan of London, which, although referred to the time of Henry VIII and Edward VI, appears not to have been made on wood until about the year 1560, in the early part of the reign of Elizabeth. It was re-published in 1618, and re-engraved by Vertue in 1748. The plates, which were purchased by the Society of Antiquaries, were published in 1776. He also AGNESI (MARIA GAETANA) an Italian drew plans of Oxford, Cambridge. and Dunwich | lady celebrated for her learning, was born at to melody and harmony. Agostino died in 1629 in the prime or life. - Burney's Hist. Mus. Milan in 1718. So profound were her mathe | Agnus Dei in eight parts, in which the dif matical attainments that, when in 1750 her ferent canons are carried on at the same time father, who was a professor in the university in the most clear and natural manner, both as of Bologna, was unable to continue his lectures, owing to the infirmity of his health, she obtained permission from the Pope to fill his chair. At the early age of nineteen she had supported one hundred and ninety-one theses, which were published in 1738 under the title of "Propositiones Philosophicæ;" and was also mistress of the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, German, and Spanish languages. Her principal work, entitled "Instituzioni analitiche," 1748, 2 vols. 4to, was translated in part by Antelmy into French, under the title of Traitès elementaires du Calcul differentiel, et du Calcul integral," 1775, 8vo, and into English by the Rev Joan Colson, Lucasian professor of mathematics in the university of Cambridge. This able mathematician deemed the analytical institutions of Agnesi so excellent, that he learnt Italian in order to translate that work into English, and at his death left the manuscript nearly ready for the press. In that state it remained for some years, until the late Mr Raron Maseres resolved to defray the expense of printing a handsome edition in 2 vols. 4to, 1801. Agnesi retired to the monastery of Blue Nuns, where she died at a very advanced age in 1799.-Un. Biog. AGNESI (MARIA TERESA) sister of the bove, a female musician of much genius, born at Milan about the year 1750. She composed three operas, "Sophonisba," "Ciro," and "Nitrocri," all which were successful, besides several cantatas and other pieces of great merit. -Biog. of Mus. AGOBARD, archbishop of Lyons in the ninth century, an active and able prelate, who wrote several tracts against the Jews, and other treatises. His works were buried in obscurity until Papirius Massonfound a manuscript of them by chance in a bookseller's shop at Lyons. Masso published this manuscript in 1603, but a more correct edition is that of Baluze, Paris, 1666, 2 vols. 8vo, which edition has been reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum.-Moreri Cave. AGOSTINI (LIONARDO) an eminent antiquary of the seventeenth century, officially employed by pope Alexander VII. He pubhshed his works, which are now scarce and much valued, entitled, 1. "La Sicilia di Filippo Paruta, descritta con Medaglie; con aggiunto di Lionardo Agostini,"Rome, 1649, folio; 2. "Le Gemme Antiche figurate di Lionardo Agostini," part 1, Rome, 1636 and 1657, 4to; part 11, Rome, 1670. This work was reprinted in 1680, 1702, and 1707; the first edition however is still in the highest esteem, on account of the beauty of the plates. -Biog. Universelle. AGOSTINO (PAUL) of Valerano, an eminent musician, born in 1593, who surprised the world with his productions for four, six, or eight choirs or chorusses, some of which might be sung in four or six parts only, without diminishing or weakening the harmony. Father Martini speaks with great admiration of an AGOULT (WILLIAM D') a Provençal gentleman of the twelfth century, who was one of the most pleasing poets and amiable persons of his time. He complains that in his days the passion of love had degenerated, and therefore wrote a treatise or poem entitled, "La Maniera d'Amar del temps passat," in which he maintains, with the fantastic sentiment of the period, that no one can be happy unless he is good, no one good unless he is in love, and no one in love who is not careful of the honour of his mistress. Agoult died A.D. 1181. The family still exists in Dauphiny and Provence. Moreri. AGREDA (MARIA D') a Spanish visionary, was born at Agreda in Spain, 1602, and took the veil at the age of eighteen in a convent founded by her father and mother, dedicated to the "Immaculate Conception," of which she was chosen superior. She reported that she had express orders from God and the Holy Virgin to write the life of the latter. She accordingly commenced this legend; but by the advice of her temporary confessor in the absence of her ordinary director, it was consigned to the fiames. On the return of the latter, however, he recommended her to begin again, and the fruit of her reveries was a work which she entitled, "The Mystical City of God, Miracle of the Almighty, Abyss of the Grace of God, Divine History and Life of the Most Holy Virgin, Mary, Mother of God; manifested in these last ages by the Holy Virgin to Sister Mary of Jesus, Abbess of the Convent of Immaculate Conception, of the City of Agreda." This piece of absurdity, written in her own hand, with an attestation that it was the offspring of Divine revelation, was translated by Father Crozet, a cordelier, into the French language in 1696, but was suppressed by a sentence of the Sorbonne, which decision however was not allowed to be promulgated in Spain, and the book of the poor crazy fanatic was absolutely republished in Brussels in 1718, in 3 vols. 4to. Although puerile and contemptible in the highest degree, the condemnation of this legend gave offence to certain zealots, who conceived that the worship paid to the Virgin by the Catholic church might be affected by it, in consequence of which a solemn declaration was made by the Sorbonne that such was not the intention. On the death of Mary, great interest was made at Rome to get her canonized, but without success. died in 1665.- Moreri. Bayle. She AGRICOLA (CNEIUS JULIUS) an excellent Roman commander, born A. D. 40, in the reign of Caligula, by whom his father Julius Græcinus was put to death, for nobly refusing to plead against Marcus Silanus. His mother, to whom he owed his excellent education, was Julia Procilla, unhappily murdered on her ostate at Liguria by a descent of freebooters from the piratical fleet of Otho. The first military ser vice of Agricola was under Suetonius Paulinus in Britain; and on his return to Rome he mar- | From being the friend and scholar, he became ried a lady of rank, and was made quæstor in Asia, where in a rich province, peculiarly open to official exactions, he maintained the strictest integrity. He was chosen tribune of the peopie and prætor under Nero, and unhappily, in the commotion which followed the accession of Galba, lost his mother, as above mentioned. By Vespasian, whose cause he espoused, he the antagonist of Martin Luther, against whom, as well as Melancthon, he maintained a spirited controversy, advocating the doctrine of faith in opposition to the works of the law, whence the sect, of which he became the leader, received the name of Antinomians. These opinions he inculcated principally at Wittemberg, where he had obtained a professorship. In the early was made a patrician and governor of Aquita- part of his career he had been chaplain to nia, which post he held for three years. The count Mansfeld, in whose train he had aсdignity of consul followed, and in the same | companied the elector of Saxony to the diets year he married his daughter to the historian | held at Spires and Augsburg in 1526 and 1530. Tacitus. He was soon afterwards made go- His opinions however soon lost him the favour AGRIPPA (CAMILLE) a celebrated archi- did not like to be employed as an astrologer vernor of Britain, where he subjugated North Wales and reduced the Isle of Anglesea or Mona. He adopted the most wise and generous plans to civilize the Britons, by inducing the nobles to assume the Roman habit and have their children instructed in the Latin language. He also gradually adorned the country with magnificent temples, porticos, baths, and public edifices, of a nature to excite the admiration and emulation of the rude people whom he governed. With these cares how ever he indulged the usual ambition of a Roman commander, to add to the limits of the Roman territory by extending his arms northward; and in the succeeding three years he passed the river Tweed, subdued the country as far as the Frith of Tay, and erected a chain of protective fortresses from the Clyde to the Frith of Forth. He also stationed troops on the coast of Scotland opposite to Ireland, on which island he entertained views of conquest; and in an expedition to the eastern part of Scotland, beyond the Frith of Forth, was accompanied by his fleet, which explored the inlets and harbours, and hemmed in the natives on every side. His seventh summer was passed in the same parts of Scotland, and the Grampian Hills became the site of a decisive engagement with the Caledonians under their most able leader Galgacus. The latter made a noble stand, but was at last obliged to yield to Roman valour and discipline; and having taken hostages, Agricola gradually withdrew his forces into the Roman limits. In the mean time, Domitian had succeeded to the empire, to whose mean and jealous nature the brilliant character and successes of Agricola gave secret uneasiness. Artfully spreading a rumour that he intended to make the latter governor of Syria, he recalled him, received him coldly, and allowed him to descend into private life. The jealousy of this tyrant pursued him for the remainder of his life; and as after he had been induced to resign his pretension to the proconsulship of Asia or Africa, he was soon seized with an illness of which he died; Domitian, possibly without reason, has been suspected of a recourse to poison. Agricola died A. D. 93, in his fifty-fourth year, leaving a widow and one daughter, the wife of Tacitus, who has so admirably written his life and preserved his high character for the respect of posterity.Tacitus. AGRICOLA (JOHN) a polemical writer of celebrity, born at Isleben in Saxony. in 1492. of both these patrons, which he never afterwards regained. The latter part of his life was spent at Berlin, where he became preacher to the court and acquired considerable reputa tion. Although of a restless and ambitious temper, his motives seem to have been good, and his conciliatory disposition is evinced by his constant though unavailing efforts to bring about a reconciliation between the Catholics and the Reformed Church. Some of his works possess merit, especially his collection of German proverbs. He also wrote a volume of Commentaries on St. Luke, a folio entitled "Historia Passionis J C." and in 1548 composed, in conjunction with Heldingus and Phlug, the famous Interim, which created so great a sensation. He died at Berlin in 1566, in the 74th year of his age.-Nouv. Dict Hist. AGRICOLA (RODOLPHUS) one of the most learned men of the fifteenth century, was born A. D. 1442, near Groningen. in Friesland, He is spoken of both by Erasmus and Bayle with great respect; but two works only of his remain: 1. " De Inventione Dialectiæ," Louvain, 1516, and Cologne, 1539; 2. An abridgment of history under the title of "R. Agricola Lucubrationes," 2 vols. 4to. - Melchior Adam. Bayle. AGRIPPA (HEROD) son of Aristobolus and Berenice, grandson of Herod the Great. He gave great offence to Tiberius, who threw him into prison for too openly expressing his wishes with regard to the succession. On Caligula's becoming emperor, however, he was not only released, but received from the favour of that emperor a golden chain, equal in weight to the iron one which he had worn in his confinement, as also the kingdom of Judea. He commenced a persecution of the Christians, in which the apostle St James perished, and is the person represented to have been eaten up by worms, on account of his impiety in accepting the adoration of the people.-Lardner. AGRIPPA (II) son and successor of the preceding, seventh and last of the Jewish monarch of the family of Herod the Great. In the war carried on by Vespasian against his own countrymen, he sent a succour of 2000 men to his assistance. It was before him, his sister Berenice, and the Roman governor, that St Paul made his defence and appeal to the Emperor, when in custody at Cæsarea. Agrippa lived to the year 100 of the Christian æra, and died at Rome in the third year of the emperor Trajan.-Suetonius. tect of Milan, in the sixteenth century, who, instead of a physician; and he vented his under the pontificate of Gregory XIII, accom- resentment with his usual unguarded impeplished the removal of a vast obelisk to St tuosity. He now resolved to remove to the Low Peter's Square; an account of which labour Countries, but experienced much delay, owing he published. His other works, which are to the mysterious character which he had so very scarce, are, 1. "Trattano di Scientia injudiciously assumed, the duke of Vendome d'Arme," Rome, 1533, Venice, 1568-1604, refusing to sign the passport of a conjuror. In 4to; 2. "Dialogo sopra la generazione de 1529 Agrippa was again in great request, inVenti," Rome, 1584, 4to; 3. "Dialogo del vitations being transmitted to him from Henry modo di mettere in Battaglia," Rome, 1585, VIII of England, from the chancellor of the 4to; 4. "Nuove invenzione sopra il modo de emperor, from an Italian marquis, and from Navigare," Rome, 1595, 4to. Biog. Univer. Margaret of Austria, governor of the Low AGRIPPA (HENRY CORNELIUS). This Countries. He preferred the offer of the last, highly gifted but eccentric man of learning and received the appointment of historiograwas born in the year 1486, at Cologne, of a pher to the emperor. His eccentric genius noble family, which had long been in the ser- however was to be kept in none of the bounds vice of the house of Austria. In his youth he that would allow of repose in the age in which was employed as secretary to the emperor he lived; and in the year 1530 he produced Maximilian, and subsequently served in the another storm by his celebrated treatise "On army of Italy seven years, and obtained the the Vanity of the Sciences," which was not an honour of knighthood. The particulars of his attack upon real learning, but a very caustic education are unknown; but he himself re- satire upon the inefficiency of the common lates that he was acquainted with eight lan- modes of instruction, and upon the monks, guages. On his quitting the army, when he theologians, and members of the universities. gave himself up to the pursuit of science, he On the appearance of this work, the bishop of rapidly attained the honours of doctor in law Liege withdrew his pension, and even permitand physic, and began to assume the reputa- ted his imprisonment for debt at Brussels, from tion of an acquaintance with the secrets of na- which enthralment he was not released until ture, which it is difficult to distinguish from the death of Margaret of Austria, which hapintentional quackery. It is now thought, that pened very opportunely, as the monks had by his alchemical and kindred pretensions, he fully succeeded in prejudicing her against him. had no other object than to excite admiration Soon after his release he sent out another treaand court powerful protection. In the twenty- tise at Antwerp, "On the Occult Philosofirst year of his age he visited France, and the phy." This was not a work on magic, but a succeeding year passed into Spain, from which sketch of mystical theology, explaining, on the however he soon returned, and delivered lec- principles of the emanative system, the hartures at the college of Dole in Burgundy, on mony of the elementary, celestial, and intelthe mystical work of Reuchlin, "De Verbo lectual worlds. The clergy, although unable Mirifico." In these discourses he hazarded to discover magic, detected heresy, and the novelties which commenced a warfare with father inquisitor at Ulm interfered to prevent the monks, that lasted for the remainder of a third edition. This prohibition was soon his life. In order to court the favour of Mar- disregarded, for in 1533 a new edition apgaret of Austria, he wrote a treatise "On the peared in Cologne, which was accompanied by Excellence of Women," which work monkish an apology addressed to the senate, so replete influence prevented him from publishing; he with satire and invective, that Agrippa was then went over to England, and wrote a once more obliged to withdraw from the efCommentary on the Epistles of St Paul." fects of the resentment excited He retired t On his return he again joined the army of the Bonn, where, according to the account a emperor in Italy, which he left on an invita- Wier, who had been his domestic servant, tion to Pisa by the cardinal St Croix. In the he divorced his third wife, having buried his year 1515 he read lectures upon Mercurius second, who had produced him five children, Trismegistus, at Pavia, from which town he at Antwerp, in 1529. Resolved once more was obliged to make a very hasty retreat, to try his fortune in France, he repaired to when his friends procured him the honourable Lyons in 1539, where, instead of patronage, employment of syndic and councillor for the he met with imprisonment for some former city of Metz. Here, with his usual impru- satires on the Queen mother. He was howdence, he undertook to refute the vulgar notion ever soon released, and returned to Grenoble, that St Ann had three husbands, and-what where he died in the course of the year, was much more sensible as well as humane- not in an hospital, as affirmed by some defended and saved the life of a countrywoman authors, but in the house of the receiveraccused of witchcraft. Obliged to quit Metz, general of the province. To the practised obhe returned to Cologne, where he lost his first server, the character of Cornelius Agrippa wife, a very amiable woman; after which he may be tolerably well estimated from his ex. successively resided at Geneva, Fribourg, and traordinary adventures. His genius was strikLyons, where he obtained a pension from ing, but irregular; his spirit was strong and Francis I, and was appointed physician to penetrating, but restless and unquiet; and in the Queen Mother. His latter appointment his quarrels with the monks, what his vigorous proved of no advantage to him, because he | understanding prompted him to think, he was Broc. Dict. -Ν.Ι. ension D by no means backward in daring to say. Look-and to unite both in the general term "loyalty." ing at the commencement of his life and his Agrippa married first the daughter of Pomchangeable fortune, the extent of his erudition ponius Atticus, and afterwards Julia the widow was surprising, and his industry in composition of Marcellus and daughter of Augustus. By most extraordinary. His reputation for necromancy, his attendant demon in the form of a black dog, and similar imputations, will now only provoke a smile. Ridiculous as it may at present appear, it is however obvious that his presumed skill in occult science, especially alchemy, led to the numerous invitations which he received from royal and exalted personages, and that his inability to answer their absurd expectations produced their subsequent neglect of him. On the other hand, Agrippa only reaped the fruit of his own disingenuousness, by encouraging the notion of his possession of endowments, of which he must have been conscious he was destitute. Yet so singularly constituted is the human mind, he was at the same time partly his own dupe; for it is proved that he belonged to cabalistical and other societies for magical pursuits; and if his assertions may be credited, he had attained that intercourse with the demoniacal natures, which was the boast of Plotinus and Jamblichus. Here the monks might have satirized in their turn; but these silly pretensions they believed, and instead of laughing at, would have burnt him. The works of Agrippa above-mentioned, with all his other productions, have been frequently published entire; but the edition of Lyons, by the Behrings, Leyden, 1550, 8vo, 2 vols., is deemed the best. This edition contains a fourth book of the Occult Philosophy, on magical ceremonies, which is not by Agrippa, but has probably done much to make aftertimes regard him as a magician. It must not be omitted, that this writer looked with great satisfaction at the bold attacks of Martin Luther upon the corruption of the church of Rome, although the patronage he sought for from Catholic princes would not allow him to quit the pale of the church in which he was educated.-Moreri. Bayle. Brucker. AGRIPPA (MARCUS VIPSANIUS) the celebrated friend and general of Augustus Cæsar, whose life belongs rather to history than biography, in consequence of its complete amalgamation with the public events of an interesting period in Roman history. To the military abilities and faithful services of Agrippa, Augustus owed not only the empire, but the most felicitous portion of his subsequent creditable career. After the battle of Actium, Octavius, then possessed of supreme power, either really or affectedly consulted his friends, Mecænas and Agrippa, whether he should retain his sovereignty, or resign it to the senate. Agrippa, contrary to Mecenas, recommended the more magnanimous part; which it need not be said Octavius declined to adopt, although he was not so ungenerous as to be offended with Agrippa for his dangerous counsel. Gibbon, alluding to Agrippa, observes that he was almost the first model, in the ancient world, of the faithful courtier of the modern one, a character who is supposed to mix the first he had one daughter, married to Tiberius, and by the second three sons and two daughters, of which two of the sons died young, while the latter, Agrippa Posthumus, fell a sacrifice to the jealousy of Tiberius. Of the daughters, Julia was married to Lucius Paulus; and Agrippina, first to Tiberius, and then to the celebrated Germanicus. Suetonius. Univ. Hist. AGRIPPA (MENENIUS) consul of Rome in the year of Rome 251, B.C. 503, was distinguished for his urbane and well-principled mediation between the patrician and plebeian interests, in that early stage of the republic. Being chosen one of the deputies by the former to conduct a conference with the people, he addressed to them the celebrated political fable of the belly and the members. The latter insisted however on the establishment of the protective magistrates named tribunes, with which demand Menenius advised the senate to comply. Menenius died soon after, at an advanced age, universally esteemed for his wisdom and integrity, but so poor, that the people insisted upon taxing themselves to support the expense of a public funeral, and when the senate issued a sum from the treasury for the purpose, demanded that their money should be given to his children.-Livy. AGRIPPINA, the elder daughter of Marcus Agrippa and of Julia, was married in the first instance to Tiberius, who divorced her; on which she became the wife of Germanicus. On the death of the latter, she returned to Rome with his ashes, and took advantage of the public grief for the death of her husband, to accuse Piso, who was suspected of having hastened it. The latter was so harassed by her persecutions, and the indignation of the people, that he was found dead in his bed. Tiberius, jealous of the affection of the people for Agrippina, banished her to a small island, where he allowed her to die of hunger, A.D. 35. This magnanimous woman, who exhibited the same elevated character in all fortunes, left nine children by Germanicus.-Nour. Diet. Hist. AGRIPPINA (the younger) daughter of the foregoing, and mother of Nero, was at once cruel and licentious. After having two husbands, she married her uncle the emperor Claudius, and having run a career of perfidy and baseness, poisoned him in order to make way for Nero. She however lived bitterly to repent the exaltation of this monster, who soon deprived her of the imperial authority she had obtained under the stupid Claudius, and, resisting all her intrigues and blandishments, put her to death. The centurion employed as her executioner struck her on the head with his sword: "Strike rather at my womb," she exclaimed, "for having brought forth such a monster." Tacitus observes, that Agrippina left memoirs behind her, which had proved very serviceable to him in the compilation of up personal devotion with the love of country, ❘ bis annals.-Tacitus. |