Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale Read online

  CONTENTS

  I. THE SOLILOQUIES OF AGRIPPINA

  II. AGRIPPINA AND NERO

  III. INSTRUMENTA IMPERII

  IV. THE CRIME

  V. THE MOCKERY OF DEATH

  VI. THE ACCESSION OF NERO

  VII. SENECA AND HIS FAMILY

  VIII. SENECA AND HIS VISITORS

  IX. NERO AND HIS COMPANIONS

  X. PRINCE BRITANNICUS

  XI. ‘A FOREIGN SUPERSTITION’

  XII. ONESIMUS

  XIII. THE ADVENTURES OF A RUNAWAY

  XIV. MOTHER AND SON

  XV. EMPEROR AND ÆSTHETE

  XVI. EVENTS IN THE VILLA POLLUX

  XVII. AMUSEMENTS OF AN EMPEROR

  XVIII. VESPASIAN’S FARM

  XIX. OTHO’S SUPPER AND WHAT CAME OF IT

  XX. BROTHER AND SISTER

  XXI. AMONG THE CHRISTIANS

  XXII. BRITANNICUS AND HIS SONG

  XXIII. PERILS OF BRITANNICUS

  XXIV. BRITANNICUS UNDERGOES A NEW EXPERIENCE

  XXV. LOCUSTA

  XXVI. A BANQUET AND A CONVERSATION

  XXVII. DEATH IN THE GOBLET

  XXVIII. THE LAST OF THE CLAUDII

  XXIX. AGRIPPINA AT BAY

  XXX. A PRIVATE TRIAL

  XXXI. THE INTERIOR OF A SLAVE-PRISON

  XXXII. WANDERINGS OF AN OUTCAST

  XXXIII. TITUS AND THE VESTAL

  XXXIV. AN EVIL EPOCH

  XXXV. THE MATRICIDE

  XXXVI. SELF-AVENGED

  XXXVII. VICTOR OVER THE PUBLIC SERVITUDE

  XXXVIII. THE GLADIATORS’ SCHOOL

  XXXIX. THE FIGHT IN THE ARENA

  XL. THE SPOLIARIUM

  XLI. THE KING OF THE GROVE

  XLII. A MASSACRE OF SLAVES

  XLIII. A NOTABLE PRISONER

  XLIV. A SUPPER AT VESPASIAN’S

  XLV. POPPÆA VICTRIX

  XLVI. THE DEATH OF OCTAVIA

  XLVII. A FETTERED AMBASSADOR

  XLVIII. ENSLAVED AND FREE

  XLIX. THE DEPTHS OF SATAN

  L. A CITY IN FLAMES

  LI. AN INFERNAL SUGGESTION

  LII. ALITURUS AMONG THE CHRISTIANS

  LIII. ‘HE WHO SAW THE APOCALYPSE’

  LIV. IN THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE

  LV. TWO MARTYRDOMS

  LVI. LIVING TORCHES

  LVII. A CONSPIRACY AND ITS COLLAPSE

  LVIII. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF SENECA

  LIX. THE AGONY OF AN EMPRESS

  LX. THE DOOM OF VIRTUE

  LXI. BEFORE THE LION

  LXII. NERO IN GREECE

  LXIII. MUTTERING THUNDER

  LXIV. AT THE THREE FOUNTAINS

  LXV. IN THE CLUTCH OF NEMESIS

  LXVI. L’ENVOI

  FOOTNOTES

  NOTES

  TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  BOOK I

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  ‘_CLOTHO FERT FUSUM_’