Quo Vadis, A Narrative of the Time of Nero

By Sienkiewicz, Henry K.

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Title:	Quo Vadis, A Narrative of the Time of Nero
Author:	Sienkiewicz, Henry K.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt: PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied. The evening before he had been at one of Nero?s feasts, which was prolonged till late at night. For some time his health had been failing. He said himself that he woke up benumbed, as it were, and without power of collecting his thoughts. But the morning bath and careful kneading of the body by trained slaves hastened gradually the course of his slothful blood, roused him, quickened him, restored his strength, so that he issued from the elaeothesium, that is, the last division of the bath, as if he had risen from the dead, with eyes gleaming from wit and gladness, rejuvenated, filled with life, exquisite, so unapproachable that Otho himself could not compare with him, and was really that which he had been called, arbiter elegantiarum. He visited the public baths rarely, only when some rhetor happened there who roused admiration and who was spoken of in the city, or when in the ephebias there were combats of exceptional interest. Moreover, he had in his own ?insula? private baths which Celer, the famous contemporary of Severus, had extended for him, reconstructed and arranged with such uncommon taste that Nero himself acknowledged their excellence over those of the Emperor, though the imperial baths were more extensive and finished with incomparably greater luxury.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Quo Vadis, A Narrative of the Time of Nero, 1 -- Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1 -- INTRODUCTORY, 2 -- Chapter I, 3 -- Chapter II, 10 -- Chapter III, 20 -- Chapter IV, 22 -- Chapter V, 26 -- Chapter VI, 28 -- Chapter VII, 30 -- Chapter VIII, 45 -- Chapter IX, 48 -- Chapter X, 53 -- Chapter XI, 56 -- Chapter XII, 62 -- Chapter XIII, 67 -- Chapter XIV, 73 -- Chapter XV, 80 -- Chapter XVI, 82 -- Chapter XVII, 85 -- Chapter XVIII, 91 -- Chapter XIX, 93 -- Chapter XX, 98 -- Chapter XXI, 104 -- Chapter XXII, 108 -- Chapter XXIII, 113 -- Chapter XXIV, 117 -- Chapter XXV, 123 -- Chapter XXVI, 126 -- Chapter XXVII, 132 -- Chapter XXVIII, 136 -- Chapter XXIX, 140 -- Chapter XXX, 146 -- Chapter XXXI, 149 -- Chapter XXXII, 153 -- Chapter XXXIII, 159 -- Chapter XXIV, 162 -- Chapter XXXV, 164 -- Chapter XXVI, 168 -- Chapter XXXVII, 173 -- Chapter XXXVIII, 175 -- Chapter XXXIX, 176 -- Chapter XL, 180 -- Chapter XLI, 184 -- Chapter XLII, 188 -- Chapter XLIII, 193 -- Chapter XLIV, 198 -- Chapter XLV, 200