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ERNST ECKSTEIN.
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ECKSTEIN’S ROMANCES,
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A ROMANCE OF IMPERIAL ROME
BY
ERNST ECKSTEIN
From the German by Clara Bell
IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. II.
REVISED AND CORRECTED IN THE UNITED STATES
NEW YORK
GEO. GOTTSBERGER PECK, Publisher
11 Murray Street
1893.
Copyright, 1882, by William S. Gottsberger
THIS TRANSLATION WAS MADE EXPRESSLY FOR THE PUBLISHER
The same day, which saw our friends in the country house at Ostia, andthe bond of love sealed between Aurelius and Claudia, had been one ofinfinite agitation and annoyance to the Emperor Domitian.
The very first thing in the morning came vexatious tidings fromthe town and provinces. At the earliest dawn inscriptions had beendiscovered on several of the fountains, columns and triumphal arches,of which the sting was more or less covertly directed against thePalatium and the person of Caesar. “Enough!” was attached to the baseof a portrait bust.[1] “The fruit is ripe!” was legible on the archof Drusus. In the fourth, eighth and nin