Ensured stability. Here Agrippina,
Saved from her own ambition in the splendour
Of her son’s estate, serves in his interest
To guard Britannicus, whom else he had feared.
The boy, in favour of his sister’s title,
Sinks his own right. Then Nero’s youthful passions,
Growing to hatred of Octavia’s bed,
Are stayed at equilibrium, as my judgment
And knowledge of the world enables me;
And all goes well, when an important factor,