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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 595 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRITANNICUS , son of the See also:

Roman See also:emperor See also:Claudius by his third wife See also:Messallina, was See also:born probably A.D. 41. He was originally called Claudius Tiberius Germanicus, and received the name Britannicus from the See also:senate on See also:account of the See also:conquest made in See also:Britain about the See also:time of his See also:birth. Till 48, the date of his See also:mother's See also:execution, he was looked upon as the See also:heir presumptive; but See also:Agrippina, the new wife of Claudius, soon persuaded the feeble emperor to adopt See also:Lucius Domitius, known later as See also:Nero, her son by a previous See also:marriage. After the See also:accession of Nero, Agrippina, by playing on his fears, induced him to See also:poison Britannicus at a banquet (A.D. 55). A See also:golden statue of the See also:young See also:prince was set up by the emperor See also:Titus. Britannicus is the subject of a tragedy by See also:Racine. See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, xii. 25, 41, xiii. 14-16; Suetonius, Nero, 33; Dio See also:Cassius lx. 32, 34; See also:works quoted under NERD.

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