Agrippina's Response

Translation

There, reflecting that she had been summoned for that reason by a deceptive letter and held in particular honour, and that the ship near the shore had not been driven by the winds, not dashed onto rocks, but had collapsed in its upper part like a land-based contrivance; noting also the murder of Acerronia, at the same time looking at her own wound, she realised that the only remedy against treachery was if it was not recognised; and she sent her freedman Agerinus to announce to her son that she had escaped a serious disaster through the kindness of the gods and his good fortune; she begged him to postpone the duty of visiting, however much he was frightened by his mother's danger; for the present, she needed rest. And meanwhile, feigning unconcern, she applied medicines to the wound and poultices to the body; she ordered Acerronia's will to be sought and her property to be sealed up; this alone was not done through pretence.