A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . a,who now appear as Neros ministers, couldadapt themselves to the relation whichAgrippina wished to establish. Immedi-FiG. 27. — Nero. Antique bust in ately after the death of Claudius she hadthe \ atican. (From a photo- js^arcissus and other enemies of hers mur-dered ; and when Seneca and Burrus op-posed such a reign of terror, a struggle began in the palace betweenthese statesmen and the empress and her favorite Pallas, for the controlof the government, wliich was decided in their favor, as they held to-
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . a,who now appear as Neros ministers, couldadapt themselves to the relation whichAgrippina wished to establish. Immedi-FiG. 27. — Nero. Antique bust in ately after the death of Claudius she hadthe \ atican. (From a photo- js^arcissus and other enemies of hers mur-dered ; and when Seneca and Burrus op-posed such a reign of terror, a struggle began in the palace betweenthese statesmen and the empress and her favorite Pallas, for the controlof the government, wliich was decided in their favor, as they held to-gether, and succeeded in winning the young emperor to their , superficial and pleasure-loving, was at first little inclined totake up the heavy burden of his station, and left for a long time theconduct of his business entirely to his ministers. They on their sideput no hindrance in the way of his following his favorite pleasures;but besides his artistic tastes, and the craving to appear in public as acharioteer, a singer, an actor, and above all as a poet, — and here he. THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF NEROS REIGN. 95 had considerable talent, — he early displayed an inordinate desire forsensual pleasures, that in the end shrank from no crime howeverhorrible. The first five years of Neros government are among the best in thehistory of the Roman empire. The degeneracy of the emperor was dis-played exclusively wdthin the palace, without disturbing public systems of provincial administration, of mihtary affairs, and offoreign policy were so w^ell established that the conduct of the Romanstate was no less vigorous and successful under Nero than under Tibe-rius and Claudius. Seneca and Burrus with great dexterity kept inharmony with the senate, managed the business of tlie government^^ith fidelity, judgment, and success, and obtained for all their meas-ures the ready consent of Nero, w4io showed discretion and evenbenevolence. The reign of Nero, however, like that
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