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eminence which commanded a wide view of the
gulf.
During the remaining ten years of her son's reign, the site
of her sepulchre was left unhonoured and no mound was
raised above her ashes. But the spot was not forgotten, and
to this day the peasant points to the Sepolcro d' Agrippina.
One instance of faithfulness gave a yet more pathetic interest
to the spot where so many lofty hopes were quenched in
blood. Before the pyre was kindled, Mnester, her loyal
freedrnan, stabbed himself over her corpse. He would not
survive a mistress who, whatever had been her crimes, had
been kind to him, and whom he loved.
What pathos
is there in the fact that even the worst and
most criminal of human souls have rarely died entirely unloved!
Even a Marat, even a Robespierre, even a Borgia,
even an Agrippina, found at least one to mourn when they
were dead.