[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

For little Agrippina, this is her first time on the stage of litigation, but she is not afraid.

After all, Claudius still gave little Agrippina the right to defend herself, unlike Tiberius or Caligula, who took little Agrippina based on the words of a few slaves .

Because it involved the emperor's family affairs, Claudius didn't want too many people to watch. Therefore, apart from the emperor's family and 30 judges who jointly tried the case, only the parties and their respective lawyers were present.

Agrippina's lawyer is Seneca, who has maintained a long-term friendship with the Germanicus family. He is the most famous orator and rich man in Rome, and has high prestige among the citizens.

However, when this famous scholar looked at Messalina with menacing eyes, even if he had been prepared for it, he couldn't help but feel shocked at this moment, and began to blame little Agrippina for dragging him into such troublesome things .

It is true that the court is the best place for an unknown scholar to fight for fame.

But the successful Seneca did not need this opportunity to increase his prestige. Compared with Cicero, who was desperate for the republic, Seneca, who had brushed shoulders with death twice, pursued a safer and more comfortable life.

Such a thing that is remembered for a lifetime by the family in power, if it is not that the knife is already on the neck, or Germanicus and Agrippina the Great are resurrected from the family grave on the spot, Seneca will not take the little Agrippina. Gripina's request.

In particular, his opponents were Vespasian Flavius, who was the justice at the time, and Propedius, who had been persecuted by Caligula.The latter was one of the most respected senators in Rome. After escaping Caligula's death trial a few years ago, he has been strongly opposed to the return of the young Agrippina, and even asserted that Nero was not Domitius at all. It is not a child of the family of Si, but the monster that Agrippina and Caligula had fornicated.

"Are you sure that Vespasian of the Flavius ​​family will not initiate a death penalty lawsuit against you?" Seneca's face became very ugly because of his opponent lineup, which is equivalent to a senior lawyer singled out Simpson to kill him. The dream team of the wife case is no longer a problem of too great a gap in strength, but that there is no possibility of winning at all: "If only Propedius is holding on to you, I will have a way to blame you On the ex-husband’s freed slave.”

Speaking of which, Seneca secretly looked at Nero in another area, who was sitting with Octavia, his expression was very disturbed, and he could not help talking to Octavia: "Are you sure? Nero has not been hinted at by His Majesty the Emperor? If he speaks against you in court, we will be in a bad position."

"No." Regarding her son, little Agrippina looked very confident: "How could he not turn to me? Everything I did was for him to get the throne. And you see, he didn't do well ?"

Little Agrippina looked at Octavia on the other side showing a girlish shyness, and her vigilance towards Octavia in her heart dropped slightly.

Sure enough, even as clever as Diana, she couldn't resist Cupid's golden arrow.

As long as Nero eats Octavia to death, even if little Agrippina is finally sentenced to exile or imprisonment for life, she will not worry about the day when she will make a comeback.

Of course, if Octavia, who was calming Nero, knew what little Agrippina was thinking, she would probably smile like a Mona Lisa.

"If you feel nervous, or if you don't know what to say later, just keep silent!" Octavia's right hand was tightly grasped by Nero, whose strength seemed to crush her bones.

Perhaps the record that Nero was not good at making decisions is true as later generations say.

"Can you teach me what to do later?" Octavia was like the last straw that Nero could catch.Although secretly, Nero wanted to kill Claudius and little Agrippina, but when he actually faced them, he still showed panic: "I don't want to live with my mother, and I don't want to live with my mother anymore." Being manipulated by my uncle."

"If I can grow up to be an adult the moment I meet my Psyche like Cupid, then no one can stop us from being together now."

"So I'm your Psyche? Dear Cupid." Octavia lowered her eyes, glanced at little Agrippina from the corner of her eye, and then concealed the meaning of the former in front of Nero: "It's a pity that Psyche Ke has to experience the triple difficulty of Venus, and there is no help from the God of West Wind between us."

Speaking of this, Octavia covered the back of Nero's bruised hand with her free hand, and said in a soft tone: "True love often goes through trials. Even if we can't be together for a while, we can still be together." After tempering, it will become more sincere than it is now."

"My mother is not Venus, she just wants to gain power through me. She is a person of great morals." Nero's expression was full of bitterness, but he looked at Octavia with nostalgic eyes: "I really want to Forever like this, being able to stay close to you."

"Me too." Octavia showed a pity look just right, and received a warning look from Ellis in the shadow: "It's a pity that my father doesn't want me to get too close to you, And my mother has always been the enemy of little Agrippina."

Nero remembered what he saw in Claudius' bedroom before, his eyes fell on Octavia's unbandaged arm, and then he secretly glanced at his hand.

I saw Claudius looking here with a gloomy face, and the hand holding the silver cup kept exerting force, almost deforming the vessel.

"When did Octavia get so close to Nero?" Claudius was not interested in Agrippina's trial at all, and even acquiesced in Meselina's tit-for-tat confrontation with Agrippina. Let him own Nero completely.

Narcissus, who was recording at the side, heard the words, and carefully pushed the pot to little Agrippina: "When Her Royal Highness took little Claudia to the arena to watch the game, I met little Domitia. Little Agrippina of Uz, perhaps that was when the two met."

Messalina and Narcissus looked at each other, and grumbled reluctantly: "Your niece, who was staring at the throne at that time, was thinking about my daughter. Maybe little Agrippina was thinking about it." Let Nero bewitch your father and daughter, so that she can get away with the idea of ​​crime."

Even though Claudius never thought that Messalina was a smart person, he had to admit that her words made sense.

"Nero is a beautiful child. Octavia is still young. Even if she is lucky enough to be blessed by Minerva, she will fall in love easily." The relationship is unhappy, but still willing to believe that her daughter is innocent: "I will give Octavia a better arrangement."

"A better arrangement? Hmph! Don't find Lucius Hiranus Second for my daughter." Messalina thought of the prospective son-in-law that Claudius was optimistic about actually having a relationship with Yulia Leigh. Via had a leg, so she couldn't help being furious and said: "Octavia deserves the best, you haven't heard how those bastards criticized my daughter. Especially after Rukius was executed, I live every day In the flames of anger, I wish I could tear them to pieces."

"Okay, on this occasion, don't say a few words." Claudius has long heard the criticism of the citizens, and some people even painted content satirizing the emperor's family on the walls of the street, which made Claudius Shocked and angry, he became more and more dissatisfied with little Agrippina.

Perhaps he should, as Narcissus said, stay away from little Agrippina.

Claudius withdrew his gaze from Nero, and turned to look at his glamorous niece, and some reluctance appeared in his unsteady heart.

Lets see!

Claudius turned the wine glass in his hand and decided to let his children do more things, so that they would be less concerned about the mother and son of Agrippina.

The author has something to say:

Octavia: I'm about to die of my own nausea.