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The Death of Messalina 1
Tacitus's description of the final moments of the emperor Claudius's wife Messalina.
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| prolatare | prolonging |
| componere | composing |
| preces | prayers |
| aliquando | sometimes |
| tantum superbiae | such great arrogance |
| inter extrema | at death's door |
| gerebat | was displaying |
| properavisset | hastened |
| pernicies, -ei | demise, destruction |
| vertisset | would turn |
| tempestivus | early |
| delenitus est | was softened |
| incaluit | grew flushed |
| ferunt | they say |
| languescebat | diminished |
| propinquus | approaching |
| prorumpit | rushed out |
| exsequi | to carry out |
| ita | in this way, thus |
| deligitur | was chosen |
| exactor mortis | executioner |
| raptim | quickly |
| praegressus | having gone ahead |
| repperit | discovered |
| fusam | lying |
| adsidebat | was sitting beside |
| concors | sympathetic |
| haud | hardly |
| florenti | while in power |
| supremis necessitatibus | in her final hour of need |
| evicta est | was moved |
| suadebat | was attempting to persuade |
| percussor | executioner |
| opperiretur | wait for |
| transisse | finished |
| decoram | proper |
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