A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . l of the unhappy Octaviasoon followed. A false accusation of adultery was brought against her;she was banished to Pandataria, and was there murdered. Hand in hand with the moral indifference with which Nero un- 102 THE JULIAX-CLAUDIAN DYXASTY. hesitatingly put out of the way everything that seemed to him or hisworthless counsellors troublesome or dangerous, went the increasingtendency to wanton festivals and wild extravagances of every the rabble was pleased when Nero, first in the Greek Naples,a
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . l of the unhappy Octaviasoon followed. A false accusation of adultery was brought against her;she was banished to Pandataria, and was there murdered. Hand in hand with the moral indifference with which Nero un- 102 THE JULIAX-CLAUDIAN DYXASTY. hesitatingly put out of the way everything that seemed to him or hisworthless counsellors troublesome or dangerous, went the increasingtendency to wanton festivals and wild extravagances of every the rabble was pleased when Nero, first in the Greek Naples,and then in Rome, apjjeared upon the public stage as an actor, and that,too, in a female part, and as a singer, and also as a charioteer in theCircus Maximus. He provided for the peoj)le public banquets, festalgames, and everything that the fancy could desire, surpassing all hispredecessors in the splendor of his games. The luxury of his courtnatui-ally influenced all classes, and the luxury of the table, the expen-ditures of the rich in travel, the wanton life at the villas (Fig. 28). Fig. 28. — Roman villa on the sea-shore. Pompeian wall-painting. (From Duiuy.) and at baths like Baiae or Sinuessa, went beyond anything known,even in the last days of the Republic. On the anniversary of the burning of Rome by the Gauls, in aJuly night of 64, there broke out in Rome, near the Circus Maxi-mus, among Avooden warehouses mostly filled with oil, a terrible fire,which, aided by the dryness of the season and by a strong wind, ragedfor ten nights and nine days, destroying all before it. The entire heartof ancient Rome, except the Capitol, was blotted out. Of the fourteenregions of the city, only four on the outskirts remained wholly un-harmed. Of the others, three, from the Circus to the southern slope ofthe Esquiline, lay in ashes; and the rest had all suffered. The loss in THE BURNING OF ROME. lOl] life and property was extraordinary. The immediate need of the peoplewas terrible,
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