The Burning of Rome: Or a Story of the Days of Nero (Classic Reprint)

by Alfred John Church

Excerpt from The Burning of Rome: Or a Story of the Days of Nero There were three persons in the Imperial Chamber; or four, if we are to reckon the page, a lad of singu lar beauty of form and feature, but a deaf mute, who stood by the Emperor's couch, clad in a gold-edged scarlet tunic, and holding an ivory-handled fan of peacock's feathers, which he waved with a gentle motion. Let me begin my description of the Imperial Cab inet, for such it really was, with a portrait of Nero himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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