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Nero upon this, without sufficiently examining the credibility
of the author of the story, or of the matter itself, or sending persons
through whom he might ascertain whether the intelligence was true, himself
actually encouraged the report and despatched men to bring the spoil, as
if it were already acquired. They had triremes assigned them and crews
specially selected to promote speed. Nothing else at the time was the subject
of the credulous gossip of the people, and of the very |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire He then enriched his most powerful friends with liberal presents.
Some there were who reproached men of austere professions with having on
such an occasion divided houses and estates among themselves, like so much
spoil. It was the belief of others that a pressure had been put on them
by the emperor, who, conscious as he was of guilt, hoped for merciful consideration
if he could secure the most important men by wholesale bribery. But his
mother's rage no |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire had no means of escape but in the swiftness of the
horses which bore him and his wife away. Pregnant as she was, she endured,
somehow or other, out of fear of the enemy and love of her husband, the
first part of the flight, but after a while, when she felt herself shaken
by its continuous speed, she implored to be rescued by an honourable death
from the shame of captivity. He at first embraced, cheered, and encouraged
her, now admiring her heroism, now |
The destruction of Messalina shook the imperial house; for a strife
arose among the freedmen, who should choose a wife for Claudius, impatient
as he was of a single life and submissive to the rule of wives. The ladies
were fired with no less jealousy. Each insisted on her rank, beauty, and
fortune, and pointed to her claims to such a marriage. But the keenest
competition was between Lollia Paulina, the daughter of Marcus Lollius,
an ex-consul, and Julia Agrippina, the daughter of |
Rome meanwhile being a scene of ceaseless bloodshed, Pomponius
Labeo, who was, as I have related, governor of Moesia, severed his veins
and let his life ebb from him. His wife, Paxaea, emulated her husband.
What made such deaths eagerly sought was dread of the executioner, and
the fact too that the condemned, besides forfeiture of their property,
were deprived of burial, while those who decided their fate themselves,
had their bodies interred, and their wills remained valid, a |
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