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mHv is not known, he muft have rifcn I'lUo c:irly notice, as tluir pecullai- rites niid ciifloms. Havmg nlfo appcjifod fomc 

 his full wife was Atticn, the- dui'Tlncr of Pomponius Atticiis. troubles wliich l.ad ;inlcn m the Ciinnitrian Lulphorus, lie 

 When the war broke out betWcen iMarc Antony and Oc- returned home, and a triumph was a^r.un decreed liim, \vhicn 

 tavianus, Agrlppa refcued Salvidienus, the general of the be refufed. y\fter this period no peiion that was not ot tic 

 latter, in cireumlbmcts of imminent danger ; and concurring imperial family ever obtained a truimph m Kon^i-'- -i ''« 

 with him, drove Lucius, Antony's brother, into the citv of tribunitiau power having been renewed to him for live yeai-s 

 Perufia, and invelled^the place before he had time to reflea more, he was next fent to Pannoiiia, and having qtiieteJ t ic- 

 on his own perilous htuation. Being afterwards appointed diilurbanees in that coimliy, he returned to Italy, where lie 



wasatt^icked in Campania, with a fever that loon tenriinled 

 hio death, A.U.C. 742. B.C. 12. in the 5 1 ft year 



on nis own perilous utuacion. cemg aiterwaros app^ 

 commander of the fleet of OiAavianus, he took Hiera, one 

 of the y^olian iflands, and afterwards obtained, by his fliill 

 and valour, a complete viftory over the whole fleet of 

 Pompey, for which he was honoured with a ilandard and a 

 I'ollral crown. On another occalion, when Antony had af- 

 fembled his fleet at Aftium, Agrippa interrupted his con- 

 voys ; and having made feveral defcents on tiie coall of 

 Greece, whieli haraded the enemy, and dilperfed a fquadron 

 that was advancing to join 7\ntony, he direfted the lamous 

 naval engagement that enfiied, and by which Otlavianus 

 fecured the empire. OAavla:ius, having thus acquired the 



of his age. yVugullus, as foon as he heard of his ilhiefs, 

 left the fports which were then exhibited by hi-i two grand- 

 fons in honour of Minerva, and hallened to vifii his dying 

 friend ; but he had expired a few minutes before his amval. 

 The news greatly afHifted him, and he lamented the lofs of 

 the greateit general of his age, the wifell minifttr, and the 

 moft faithful and d iinterelled friend. His body was con- 

 veyed to Home, and buried in Augullus's own maufolcum, 

 near Marcellus ; the emperor pronounced his funeral oration. 



fnpreme power, confulted his two friends Agrippa and and declared, that he would not be feparated, even aiter us 



Mecceiias, whether he Ihould retain his fuperiority or fur 

 render it to the fenate. Agrippa advifed the rclloration of 

 the Roman liberty ; but iVIecaenas's advice to retain his 

 power was more agreeable to the views of Oftavianus, and 

 was therefore followed ; and yet Agrippa Hill retained his 

 mailer's favour. In the year before Chrift 28, they were 



death, from two perfons, whom he fo tenderly loved in his 

 life. By his will he bequeathed the tine gardens and bath, 

 which were called by his name, to the Roman people ; but 

 his principal heir was Augulhis. His furviving children 

 were one daughter by his lirfl wife Cxcilia Attica, nam.ed 

 Agrippina, and married to Tiberius ; and three fons and 



colleagues in the confulate, which was the fecond time of two daughters by his third wife Julia. Two of the fons 



Agrippa's bearing that ofQce ; and the coalition was renewed died in their youth ; and the other, Pollhumus Agrippa, was 



in the following year. facriiiced to the jealoufy of Tiberius foon after his accefliou i 



Ao-rippa by marrying Marcella, the emperor's niece, was one of the daughters, ws. Julia, was married to I.ucius Pau- 



rccei?ed into the impeilal family ; and in their command of Ins ; and the other Agrippma, to the celebrated Germanicus 

 the armv, Oclavianus and Agrippa poffeffed equal authority 



and diilinftion. His munificence was fignally difplayed ni 

 the buildings which he erefted at Rome ; the moft remark- 

 able of which were his portico for the ufe of popular aflem- 

 blies, and the famous temple called the P.intheon. When 

 Oiflavianus was dangeroully ill in the year before Chrift 23, 

 he committed to him his ring, which being confidered as a 

 preference of Agrippa for his fucceflbr, offended Marcellus, 

 and rendered it neeeflary on the recovery of Augnllus, to 

 remove him from court by an honourable exile to the rich 

 government of Syria. Upon the death of Marcellus, Agrippa 

 was recalled to Rome, wliere lie was manied to Julia, ttie 

 daughter of Auguftus and Marcellus's widow, and con- 

 tributed to rcilore the tranquillity of the city. The next 

 fervice he performed was to oppofe the Germans, who had 

 made an incurfion into Gaul, and to drive them back beyond 

 the Rhine. The Cantabrians, who were vigoroufly com- great exploits, a tadi fitter for the Homeric pen of Varius 



rigrippa's fame fufficiently ellabliftied by his great aftions, 

 has derived an acccffion from the immortal records of poetry. 

 Virgil, in his anticipation of the battle of .A.ctium, gives 

 the following dignified llcetch of this commander : 



" Parte alia ventis et dis Agrippa fecundis, 

 Arduus, agmen agens : cui, belh infignc fupcrbum, 

 Tempera navali fulgent roflrata corona." 



JEn. viiL 682. 



" Agrippa feconds him with profp'rous gales, 

 And with propiuous gods, his foes adails : 

 A naval crown, that binds his manly brows. 

 The happy fortune of the light forelhows." 



Drvdev. 



Horace alfo addreffes to him aii ode (Od. vi. lib. i.) in 

 hich he confefles his own inability to celebrate worthily his 



bating for liberty, demanded greater exertions ; but they 

 were at laft completely reduced. A triumph, which he 

 declined, was decreed to him by the fenate on this occafion ; 

 but in recompence of his feiTice, Auguftus affociated him 

 with himfelf in the tribunitian power, .which was conferred on 

 him for five years ; he was alfo appointed joint Cenfor, and 



Sueton. in Aug. Op. tom. i. p. 157, &c. Ed. Pitifc. Dion. 

 Calf. Op. lib. 4J-54. tom. ii. p. 419, &c. Ed. Rcimari. 

 Ant. Univ. Hift. vol. xii. p. 96-172. 8vo. Crevicr's Hift... 

 Rom. Emp. vol. iii. Gen. Biog. 



Agrippa, Maienhis, was conful of Rome, A. TI. C. 

 251. Ante Chrift. 503. He obtained the honours of a 



concurred with Auguftus in that reduftion of fenators, triumph for a complete victory, which he and his colleague 



which was called a Reform of the Order. His two children 

 by Julia were alfo adopted by the emgeror in the year before 

 Chrift 17. After three years he was fent to appeafe the 

 riiffenfions that had occun-ed in the eaft. As he was paffing 

 through Ionia with Herod tlie Great, the Jews complained 

 to him, that they were hindered in fending their tribute to 

 the temple at Jerufalem ; that they were obliged to ferve in 

 the army ; and had otlier hardijiips impofed upon them in- 

 confiftent with the privileges granted them by the Romans. 

 Agrippa gave them and their adverfaries a folem.n hearing, 

 and in court confirmed to them their privileges ; and gave 



P. Pofthumius gained over the Sabines. When tlie people 

 refifted the tyranny of the Patricians, in the confu- 

 late of Virginius and Veturius, he was deputed to efleft a 

 reconciliation ; and it is faid that, on this occafion, he pro- 

 nounced the famous apologue of the ftomach and members, 

 by which, with promifes of a redrefs of grievances, lie 

 gained his pui-jiofe. In their demand of magillrates of their 

 own (who were the tribunes) to proteiit their rights, he ac- 

 quiefced ; and he advifed the fenate to comply. He died, 

 at an advanced age, with a charafter highly cftet.-^icd for 

 wifdom and integrity ; but fo poor, that his relations in- 



crdtrs, that no one fliould raoleft them in the obfervation of tended to bury him in a private manner. The people, how. 



ever. 



