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The north boundary of the horti Agrippinae appears to have been the via Cornelia, and from this street east extended the horti Domitiae, which belonged to Domitia, the sister of Nero's father. In 59 AD Nero caused her to be assassinated, and seizing the gardens, united them to the horti Agrippinae.
Samuel Ball Platner, The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1904), p. 490.

hortus, horti : a garden, pleasure-garden, fruit-garden, kitchen-garden, vineyard

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