locusta

Now, you still have a woman named Locusta in your custody?"

Locusta gave her a startled look, but did not disrupt the inquiry.

At the doorway she whispered to the guard, "Locusta is not to leave here for the next two days.

Locusta thought for a moment, stained hands tugging at her wrinkled chin.

Locusta had fallen on her knees before him.

A woman named Locusta had the greatest reputation in Roman toxicology.

Locusta scowled for a moment but then grinned.

His mother now knew nearly as much as Locusta, and had been adding antidotes to her diet for months.

Valerianella locusta is a small dicot annual plant of the family Valerianaceae.

Had Locusta or the tribune betrayed her?

He wrote Locusta at the toxicology academy he had set up for her, and received several samples of their latest research.

Locusta glanced into an aged scroll, then took a dusty amphora off a shelf.

I condemn you to death, Locusta.

Locusta's eyes squinted, then widened in recognition.

"Ah, well, a different carrier, then," Locusta shrugged.

Nero told Pollio to bring Locusta before him.

But it would be six months before Titus finally recovered from the last stubborn symptoms of Locusta's brew.

Supposedly, he enlisted the services of Locusta, a woman who specialized in the manufacture of poisons.

Locusta then devised a new concoction that she promised would "kill swifter than a viper."

Juvenal also mentions Locusta in Book 1, line 71 of his Satires.

Locusta continued, now very businesslike.

Lycaste locusta, which has a green lady-slipperlike flower, smells like Granny Smith apples.

Then he opened his case and took out a strange-looking vessel, which he filled with the fluids remaining in Locusta's flask.

Locusta nodded.

When Nero fled Rome, he acquired poison from Locusta for his own use, but ultimately died by other means.