Agrippa was accused of some crime, probably treason, before the senate in the final years of the reign of
Tiberius, in 33 AD according to Dio and 36 AD according to Tacitus. His case is often mentioned to highlight the frequency with which ordinary citizens were being executed in that time, and for the novelty of the case's outcome: Agrippa faced his accusers in the senate and swallowed poison that he had brought with him in a ring. Unlike an execution, this sort of pre-emptive
suicide prevented, at least in theory, the state or his accusers from claiming a share of his property, and allowed the suicide to be buried, provided they died before being convicted.
Tacitus does not record whether Agrippa's mock execution in the
tullianum was sufficient to satisfy the letter of the law and allow confiscation of his property. ==Family==