UDIUS 55

IV. THE FATE OF MESSALINA 77

V. THE CHILDHOOD OF NERO 105

VI. NERO AN EMPEROR 124

VII. BRITANNICUS 148

VIII. THE FATE OF AGRIPPINA 172

IX. EXTREME DEPRAVITY 208

X. PISO'S CONSPIRACY 228

XI. THE FATE OF THE CONSPIRATORS 250

XII. THE EXPEDITION INTO GREECE 272

XIII. NERO'S END 299

ENGRAVINGS.

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MAP--ENVIRONS OF ROME _Frontispiece._

ENCAMPMENT OF A ROMAN LEGION 21

CAESONIA 53

DISCOVERY OF CLAUDIUS 64

MESSALINA IN THE GARDEN 89

THE POISONING OF CLAUDIUS 132

THE JEWELRY 156

THE ATTEMPT OF ANICETUS 197

BURNING OF ROME 225

THE KNIFE 244

BRINGING EPICHARIS TO THE TORTURE 253

PHAON AT THE WALL 316

NERO

CHAPTER I.

NERO'S MOTHER.

A.D. 37

Roman country seats.--Antium.--Situation of the promontory of
Antium.--Account of Nero's parentage.--Brazenbeard.--Nero's
father.--Agrippina his mother.--Agrippina's brother Caligula.--Roman
emperors.--Regulations in respect to the Roman armies.--Description
of the Roman armies.--Encampments of the legions.--Their
stations.--Useful functions of the Roman armies.--Effects
produced.--Mode of producing them.--The civil authorities.--The
progress of the military power.--Disposition of men to submit to
established power.--Great capacity of the early emperors.--Roman
armies.--Character of Caligula.--His desperate malignity.--Examples
of his cruelty.--Feeding wild beasts with men.--Branding.--Agrippina
is implicated in a conspiracy.--She is banished with her sister to
Pontia.

In ancient