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Vipsanius Agrippa

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AGRIPPA, VIPSANIUS, z. Conqueror over Sextus Pompey, was distinguished at Actium and Philippi, and victorious in his expeditions into Gaul and Germany : he embellished Rome with splendid buildings, among which was the Pantheon ; after two years' retirement at Mytilene, from a quarrel with Marcellus, he was recalled by Augustus, who gave him his daughter Julia in marriage, at B.C., and the charge of the. empire during a two years' visit to Greece and Asia : he had formerly been married to Pomponia, daughter of Atticus, and Marcella, daughter of Octavia : he died ea B. c., aged 5z. By Julia he left five children, C. Cresar Agr(p,da (adopted by Augustus, made consul at 15, and killed in Armenia by the treachery of Lollius), L. Ceesar (also adopted by Augustus, but banished to Campania for sedition, and assassinated in his 26th year by order of Livia and Tiberius), Posthumus Agrippa, Agrip pina (who married Germanicus), and 71dia (who married Lepidus and was banished for licentiousness). 2. SILVI US, sir-M-us, king of

Latium, son of Tiberius Silvius, succeeded by Romulus Silvius. 3. A consul, conquered the ./Equi. 4. HERODES, he-rd-des, son of Aristo bulus, and grandson of the Great Herod, was tutor to Tiberius's grandchild,-and imprisoned by the tyrant : released on accession of Cali gula, he was made king of Judtea ; when yielding to the flatteries of the Jews he was struck with fiedicularis morbus, and died A.D. 43• 5. A son of Herodes, deprived of his kingdom by the emperor Claudius in exehange for other provinces : before him St. Paul pleaded. He was with Titus at the siege of Jerusalem, and died zoo. 6. MENENIUS, a Roman general, victorious over the Sam mites; he appeased the plebs at a secession to the Mons Sacer by the fable of the belly and the members, and created the tribuneship of the plebs 493 B.C.