Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale

by F. W. Farrar

Ad quam Gorgonei delapsa est pinna caballi.’

Juv. Sat. iii. 116.

NOTES

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[Note 1]. Page 3.

The Palace of the Cæsars.—In this description of the Palace of the Cæsars, I chiefly follow Lanciani and Burn’s Rome and the Campagna, ch. viii. See, too, Statius, Sylv. iv. 26-31; Claudian, De VI. Cons. Hon. 39-41.

[Note 2]. Page 10.

Lollia Paulina’s jewels.—See Pliny, N. H. ix. 58.

[Note 3]. Page 14.

Agrippina’s talking thrush.—‘Agrippina, Claudii Principis, turdum habuit, quod nunquam ante, imitantem sermones humanos, cum hæc proderem. Habebant et Cæsares juvenes [i. e. Nero and Britannicus] sturnum, item luscinias, Græco et Latino sermone dociles, præterea ... loquentes longiore etiam contextu.’—Pliny, N. H. x. 59.