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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Is That a Poisoning Story?

Claudius liked food and alcohol too much to be easily poisoned that it was a long hard night of poisoning her husband. She used a poisoner who was famous at the time for being so good at poisons called lacuster. He had slowed down his metabolism so well that he just wasn't dying, she says. Do you know what poison is she used for that? We don't.

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