A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Paulina, wife of Seneca
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PAULINA
Wife of Seneca, the celebrated Roman philosopher, insisted upon sharing her husband's fate, who was condemned to die by the order of the Emperor Nero. Her veins were accordingly opened at the same time; but fainting from loss of blood, Nero sent and commanded her wounds to be bound up, and conjured her to live. She, however, survived her husband but a short time, looking wan and miserable, and oppressed with the deepest melancholy. She was much younger than her husband. These events occurred about the year 68.