The trial was another humiliation. Like forcing her to carry Lepidus’s ashes, Gaius reading Agrippina’s personal (love?) letters aloud in the court was an act designed to publicly shame her as a slut. And it worked. The verdict of exile was only just better than death. Agrippina would be left on a tiny island with just a guard and some slaves for company, essentially erased from Rome and so erased from life. At the age of 24, Agrippina faced a long, long life of nothingness, separated from her son and waiting every day to find out if the emperor had changed his mind about her being alive.
Wow..
