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After the first spasm of exultation in being allowed to return to Rome, a jealous dread of Seneca came over the guilty monarch. Seneca hoped against hope that, now that Nero's wild oats were sown and the crop destroyed, all would be well. The past should be buried and remembrance of it sunk deep in oblivion.
Nero's youth the fact is not surprising did not resist the mortal seductions of immense power and immense riches; but Agrippina, the proud granddaughter of the conqueror of Germany, must have chafed at the idea of her son's preferring musical entertainments to the sessions of the Senate, singing lessons to the study of tactics and strategy.
As Seneca excellently saith, "De partibus vitae quisquae deliberat, de summa nemo." And is that, after all, is that the trouble still? Is it, that that characteristic of Elizabeth's time that same thing which Seneca complained of in Nero's, is it that that is not yet obsolete?
Grand celebration at the opening of the canal. Naval conflict to take place on the lake. End of the naval battle. The water will not flow. Deepening the canal. New celebrations. Influences under which Nero's character was formed. Agrippina's plan in respect to Octavia. Tragical end of Silanus. Marriage of Nero.
Vinicius and Lygia noticed also that his hair had grown entirely white, that his whole form was bent, and that in his face there was as much sadness and suffering as if he had passed through all those pains and torments which the victims of Nero's rage and madness had endured. But both understood that since Christ had given Himself to torture and to death, no one was permitted to avoid it.
What was happening was that the ship was in a big storm, and was being tossed up and down on great ocean waves, and that Nero's cage had got loose and was being flung about. Our lion friend was seasick, and he had a dreadful time. More than once he wished himself back in the jungle, but he could not get there. After many days the ship stopped tossing to and fro.
Yet, as governor of Bithynia, and afterwards as consul, he showed himself a vigorous and capable administrator; then relapsing into the habit or assuming the mask of vice, he was adopted as Arbiter of Elegance into the small circle of Nero's intimate companions; no luxury was charming or refined till Petronius had given it his approval, and the jealousy of Tigellinus was roused against a rival and master in the science of debauchery."
The violence of the storm, however, which promoted in one respect the accomplishment of Nero's designs by favoring the secrecy of the interment, in another respect operated strongly against him, for the face of the corpse became so wet with the fallen rain, that the cosmetic was washed away and the blackened skin was brought to view.
The statement, then, that London had the very greatest reputation for the number of its merchants and commodities of trade in Nero's time is utterly unfounded nothing more nor less than outrageously absurd; the picture, however, is quite true if London be considered at the time when Bracciolini was here.
Mole poured out his philosophical reflections into Nero's ear, Harry Gridwood went and fetched Harvey; old Jack and Jefferson. Young Jack stepped back to the door of the deck saloon, and sat down while Mole turned round and hobbled up the deck again, with Nero still leaning upon his arm. As the old gentleman came up to where they all stood, they could hear him still laying down the law to Nero.
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