“I too will die.”
“Oh! my sweet lady! nay! Speak not such words!”
“Ay, dear child; my mother was starved, Drusus was starved—I too will starve.”
Supported by Psyche, she went into the building, into her room. She then prepared for bed, as if it were night. She laid herself upon her couch with eyes closed. She said nothing, but groaned incessantly.
A day passed by—two days—without her eating or drinking anything. She resolutely refused food and drink, notwithstanding the pleadings of her companion.
On the third day the officer presented himself before Agrippina and commanded her to eat and drink.
“That will I not do,” said Agrippina.
“I am ordered to make thee eat,” said the officer.
“From whom comes that order?”
“From the emperor.”