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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8172798, member: 87809&quot;]Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was Octavians life-long faithful friend. About the gentilitium Vipsanius little is known, being very rare and unusual. Agrippa didn&#039;t use it. </p><p>His military capabilities, which he clearly demonstrated, and his faithfulness towards Octavian combined with his political discretion never brought him in temptation to play a different role than the one of &quot;second man&quot; of the state; not during the rough years of the Civil Wars nor afterwards in the time after Octavius became Princeps and Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>A portrait of Agrippa at the Museo Centrale Montemartini, one of the few existing sculptures of Agrippa:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1427938[/ATTACH] </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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