Darkness and Dawn: Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero, an Historic TaleLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 594 |
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... Otho and Tullius Senecio . tutors in every vice , and he was a pupil whose fatal aptitude 1 PLINY , N. H. vii . 6 . Nero began to seek the of the ' gilded youth ' They were his ready soon equalled , if it did not surpass , the 48 ...
... Otho and Tullius Senecio . tutors in every vice , and he was a pupil whose fatal aptitude 1 PLINY , N. H. vii . 6 . Nero began to seek the of the ' gilded youth ' They were his ready soon equalled , if it did not surpass , the 48 ...
Strona 49
... Otho and Senecio , she saw her mistake too late , and flew into the opposite extreme of com- plaisance . Nero at that time regarded her with positive dread , but his fear was weakened when he saw that , on the least sign of his ...
... Otho and Senecio , she saw her mistake too late , and flew into the opposite extreme of com- plaisance . Nero at that time regarded her with positive dread , but his fear was weakened when he saw that , on the least sign of his ...
Strona 53
... Otho was a more effective tutor than Seneca , and Seneca's own vacillation paved the way for Otho's corrupting spell . Claudius had been governed by an ' aristo- cracy of valets ; ' Nero was to be governed neither by the daughter of ...
... Otho was a more effective tutor than Seneca , and Seneca's own vacillation paved the way for Otho's corrupting spell . Claudius had been governed by an ' aristo- cracy of valets ; ' Nero was to be governed neither by the daughter of ...
Strona 54
... Otho thought , not without compla- cency , of the day when the prediction made to him by an as- trologer should be fulfilled , and he too would be Emperor of Rome . He highly approved of frescoes such as these , though even Ovid and ...
... Otho thought , not without compla- cency , of the day when the prediction made to him by an as- trologer should be fulfilled , and he too would be Emperor of Rome . He highly approved of frescoes such as these , though even Ovid and ...
Strona 55
... Otho was now nearly twenty - three years old , and was a characteristic product of imperial civilisation . His face was smooth , for he had artificially prevented the growth of a beard . To hide his baldness , which he regarded as the ...
... Otho was now nearly twenty - three years old , and was a characteristic product of imperial civilisation . His face was smooth , for he had artificially prevented the growth of a beard . To hide his baldness , which he regarded as the ...
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