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The guests assembled sing a chorus in praise of the establishment, followed by a scene in which Vindex, the prince of Aquitania, Saccus the poet, Terpander the citharist, and others conspire against Nero.
The opera of "Nero," the libretto by Jules Barbier, was first produced in Hamburg in 1879, though it was originally intended for the French stage, and in this country, March 14, 1887, at New York, by the American Opera Company, under the direction of Mr. Theodore Thomas, with the following cast: NERO Mr. LUDWIG. TIGELLINUS Mr. STODDARD. BALBILLUS Mr. WHITNEY. SACCUS Mr. FESSENDEN. SEVIRUS Mr.
Its soothing tones are interrupted by the appearance of Nero, followed by Poppoea and Saccus, the last-named announcing to the tyrant that Rome is in flames, which leads up to a vigorous trio. The concluding scene is full of characteristic music. The fourth act furnishes a dramatic denouement to the mournful story.
Upon hearing the shouts of her pursuers he conceals her just in time to escape the masked band, headed by Nero himself, which bursts into the apartment. The tyrant demands the girl; and as he throws off his mask the guests stand amazed. Saccus at last breaks the spell by the suggestion that Nero shall marry the girl.
But did such Platonists actually exist before Plotinus, or possibly Ammonius Saccus? The fragmentary evidence which exists seems to show that philosophic Greeks were interested in other problems mainly epistemological and psychological. The belief in the immortality of the soul was preserved by the tradition of the Mysteries, not by the Academy.
The tyrant, wild with rage and frenzy, appears in the tomb of Augustus, where the shades of his murdered victims terrify him. Saccus enters and tells him of the revolt of his army and the danger which threatens him. He rushes out again and kills himself on the highway of the Campagna, just as Vindex at the head of his legions comes up with him.
For instance, in Hispaniola, a king is called cacique, whereas in the province of Coiba he is called chebi, and elsewhere tiba; a noble is called in Hispaniola taino, in Coiba saccus, and in other parts jura. Nicuesa proceeded from Coiba to Uraba, the province of his ally Hojeda.
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