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Besides the debauch of married women, he comnmitted rape upon Rubria, a Vestal Virgin. He was upon the point of marrying Acte,

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his freedwoman, having suborned some men of consular rank to swear that she was of royal descent.

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That he entertained an incestuous passion for his mother,

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but was deterred by her enemies, for fear that this haughty and overbearing woman should, by her compliance, get him entirely into her power, and govern in every thing, was universally believed; especially after he had introduced amongst his concubines a strumpet, who was reported to have a strong resemblance to Agrippina.

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