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Consultation with Seneca and Burrus. Anicetus undertakes to finish his work. Anicetus goes to Agrippina's villa. Conversation. Agrippina is murdered. Nero is overwhelmed with remorse and horror. He becomes more calm. The dead body. Burning of the body of Agrippina.
Above the counter, peering at him rather anxiously over steel-rimmed spectacles, were the head and shoulders of Mr. Burrus. Burrus! It had come to him on the train. That was the name he had not caught. Burrus! Who else? "And you say that the last time you saw him was when he got into his buggy and drove away last night? What makes you think he's gone away?" Mr.
Mosby's contempt for Mr. Burrus, and as it passed the light it gleamed and sparkled with a deep golden malevolence. And hearing steps on the porch, and voices, and fearing lest he might be seen spying at the window, Joe crept back to bed. And directly he heard the familiar roaring clatter of a car starting up somewhere down below there in the darkness, and after a while silence.
Shouldn't have enjoyed a man's misfortune. I missed the edge of the road, slipped, and fell across the big eight by eight that ties the bridge to the bank, and that's all I remember. Old Burrus pulled me out of the creek himself." He withdrew his hand and moved slightly in the bed, as if easing himself somewhere. "It was funny, wasn't it?" She gazed into his face.
His general Burrus he poisoned. He sent him the poison under pretense that it was a medical remedy for a swelling of the throat under which Burrus was suffering. Burrus drank the draught under that impression and died.
The influence gained by Seneca, an accomplished courtier and a clever man of the world, as well as a brilliant scholar, over his young pupil was for a long time almost unbounded; and when Nero became Emperor at the age of seventeen, Seneca, in conjunction with his close friend, Afranius Burrus, commander of the imperial guards, became practically the administrator of the Empire.
Like as not it was that fool Lavinia Burrus. You would think she owned and was running the town. The salvation of Bloomfield weighs mighty heavy on her shoulders these days with her 'Dear Miss McCallum, and her 'Poor dear Mrs. Hamilton! I've a mind to tell her that charity, even of thought, begins at home where it's needed." Mary Louise felt a sudden sort of displeasure.
What figures from the Comédie Humaine of Roman society of the first century throng the pages of Tacitus Sejanus, Arruntius, Piso, Otho, Bassus, Caecina, Tigellinus, Lucanus, Petronius, Seneca, Corbulo, Burrus, Silius, Drusus, Pallas, and Narcissus; and those tragic women of the Annals imperious, recklessly daring, beautiful or loyal Livia, Messalina, Vipsania, the two Agrippinas, mothers of Caligula and of Nero, Urgulania, Sabina Poppaea, Epicharis, Lollia Paulina, Lepida, Calpurnia, Pontia, Servilia, and Acte!
It was not his drinking it was his drinking in spite of your wanting him not to that got him in bad, wasn't it, Mr. Burrus?" Mr. Burrus fidgeted and then turned sharply on Joe. "This ain't no third degree." "And you think he's gone away?" Joe continued as though not hearing him. "Of course he's gone away. What else was there for him to do?" There was no obvious alternative.
All this took place in A.D. 59, and we hear no more of Seneca till the year 62, a year memorable for the death of Burrus, who had long been his honest, friendly, and faithful colleague. In these dark times, when all men seemed to be speaking in a whisper, almost every death of a conspicuous and high-minded man, if not caused by open violence, falls under the suspicion of secret poison.
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