Paulina
Marchio Lutharius in Occidente infirmatus, et potione Paulina inebriatus, ex improviso obiit.Potio, ut videtur, venenata, qua postea exstinctus Henricus VII. Imp. data a Paulino Monacho ordinis Prædicatorum, quæ revera
Potio Paulinadici potuit. Rythmi in Obitum Henrici VII :
Meminit Myrepsus sect. 4. cap. 1. antidotiIn grandi stat tristitia Exercitus militia, De Principis ruina, Quam feritas damnabilis Manusque detestabilis Coagulat Paulina.
Paulinaappellatæ, quæ ad tussim confert.
Idem ibidem vers. 85. de alio antidoto :Potio sancti Pauli .Quos apoplexiæ pestis violenta procellat, Quos furor invadit maniæ, quos insita nervis Sensifici motus vis sopitiva resolvit, Potio restituit, gaudens cognomine Pauli : Asmaticos cantus compescit, menstrua solvit. Hanc annis potes illæsam servare duobus.
Paulinum. Paulinum caput et stomachum de fleumate purgat, etc... Potio Paulini crebro repetita potenter Excoquit et levigat, placat faciemque venustat, Paullini stabilis viget ætas quatuor annis.
or Paulli'na.
1. Domitia Paulina, the sister of the emperor Hadrian (D. C. 69.11; Gruter, Inscr. p. cclii. n. 4).
2. Lollia Paulina [Lollia, No. 2.]
3. Pompeia Paulina, the wife of Annaeus Seneca the philosopher, whom he married rather late in life. She was probably the daughter of Pompeius Paulinus, who commanded in Gernany in the reign of Nero. She seems to have been attached to her husband, who speaks of her with affection, and mentions in particular the care which she took of his health (Senec. Ep. 104). She was with her husband at dinner when the centurion came from Nero to tell Seneca that he must die. The philosopher received the intelligence with calmness, embraced his wife, and bade her bear their separation with firmness; but as she begged that she might die with him, he yielded to her entreaties, and they opened their veins together. Nero, however, unwilling to incur a reputation for unnecessary cruelty, comanded her veins to be bound up. Her life was thus spared; and she lived a few years longer, but with a paleness which testified how near she had been to death. This is the account of Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 15.60_64), which differs somewhat from that in Dio Cassius (61.10, 62.25), who relates the event to the disparagement of Seneca.
We learn from Ammianus Marcellinus that the wife of Maximinus I. was of amiable disposition, seeking to mitigate by gentle counsels the savage temper of her husband, by whom, if we can trust the statements of Syncellus and Zonaras, she was eventually put to death. No ancient historian, however, has mentioned her name, but numismatologists have conjectured that certain coins bearing on the obverse the words Diva Paulina, and on the reverse Consecratio, a legend which proves that they were struck after the decease of the personage whose effigy they bear, ought to be considered as belonging to this princess. (Amm. Mare. 14.1.8; Zonar. 12.16; Syncell. Chron. s. A. M. 5728; Eckhel, vii. p. 296).
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or Paullina. (1) See Lollia.
(2) Pompēia, the wife of the philosopher Seneca. When her husband was condemned to death by Nero, she severed her veins, but Nero ordered them to be bound up, so that she lived for several years longer. See Tac. Ann. xv. 63, 64; and the article Seneca.