Transcriber’s Note

Variations in hyphenation (“reception room”, “reception-room”) and spelling have not been changed. In several places, punctuation and quotation marks have been silently corrected.

Other changes, which have been made to the text:

[page 65], “Gautists” changed to “flautists”
[page 66], “mournners” changed to “mourners”
[page 123], “Antenines” changed to “Antonines”
[page 186], “Clivius” changed to “Clivus”
[page 187], “learn” changed to “learned”
[page 196], “Domitia” changed to “Domitian”
[page 267], “beween” changed to “between”