Domitia

by S. Baring-Gould

Contents

• [Book I]
• [I. The Port of Cenchræa]
• [II. An Ill-Omen]
• [III. Corbulo]
• [IV. There Is No Star]
• [V. The Ship of the Dead]
• [VI. I Do Not Know]
• [VII. The Face of the Dead]
• [VIII. The Sword of the Dead]
• [IX. Sheathed]
• [X. Ubi Felicitas?]
• [XI. The Veils of Ishtar]
• [XII. The Fall of the Veils]
• [XIII. To Rome!]
• [XIV. A Little Supper]
• [XV. The Lectisternium]
• [XVI. In the House of the Actor]
• [XVII. The Saturnalia of 69]
• [XVIII. A Refugee]
• [XIX. The End of Vitellius]
• [XX. Changed Tactics]
• [XXI. The Virgin’s Wreath]
• [XXII. Quoniam Tu Caius, Ego Caia!]
• [XXIII. The End of the Day]
• [XXIV. Albanum]
• [XXV. By a Razor]
• [XXVI. Intermezzo]
• [Book II]
• [I. An Appeal]
• [II. The Fish]
• [III. In the ‘Insula’]
• [IV. Another Appeal]
• [V. Atrium Vestæ]
• [VI. For the People]
• [VII. ‘The Blues Have It!’]
• [VIII. The Lower Stool]
• [IX. Glyceria]
• [X. The Accursed Field]
• [XI. Again: The Sword of Corbulo]
• [XII. The Tablets]
• [XIII. The Hour of Twelve]
• [XIV. In the Tullianum]
• [XV. Drawing to the Light]
• [XVI. An Ecstasy]
• [XVII. Hail, Gladsome Light!]
• [Footnotes]
• [Transcriber’s Note]

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DOMITIA.

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I.
THE PORT OF CENCHRÆA.

Flashes as of lightning shot from each side of a galley as she was being rowed into port. She was a bireme, that is to say, had two tiers of oars; and as simultaneously the double sets were lifted, held for a moment suspended, wet with brine, feathered, and again dipped, every single blade gleamed, reflecting the declining western sun, and together formed a flash from each side of the vessel of a sheaf of rays.