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Page 107
... friends , what was perhaps the most beautiful possession he still possessed , the pattern of his own life . ( Shades of his probable complicity in the murders of Claudius and Agrippina ! ) Were his friends , he added , to follow this ...
... friends , what was perhaps the most beautiful possession he still possessed , the pattern of his own life . ( Shades of his probable complicity in the murders of Claudius and Agrippina ! ) Were his friends , he added , to follow this ...
Page 152
... friend of Nero , who regarded him as his arbiter elegantiae ( a famous phrase conveying the sense of critic in ... friends too played their part by discussing not the immortality of the soul but lighter matters such as contemporary ...
... friend of Nero , who regarded him as his arbiter elegantiae ( a famous phrase conveying the sense of critic in ... friends too played their part by discussing not the immortality of the soul but lighter matters such as contemporary ...
Page 155
... friends gave him conflicting advice and he was still uncertain of his action after consulting them . It was typical of him , how- ever , to refuse to implicate young Rusticus Arulenus , a tribune of the people , who had offered to use ...
... friends gave him conflicting advice and he was still uncertain of his action after consulting them . It was typical of him , how- ever , to refuse to implicate young Rusticus Arulenus , a tribune of the people , who had offered to use ...
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