Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530488704)

PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied. The evening before he had been at one of Nero's feasts, which was prolonged till late at night. For some time his health had been failing. He said himself that he woke up benumbed, as it were, and without power of collecting his thoughts. But the morning bath and careful kneading of the body by trained slaves hastened gradually the course of his slothful blood, roused him, quickened him, restored his strength, so that he issued from the el othesium, that is, the last division of the bath, as if he had risen from the dead, with eyes gleaming from wit and gladness, rejuvenated, filled with life, exquisite, so unapproachable that Otho himself could not compare with him, and was really that which he had been called, -arbiter elegantiarum.

Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
ISBN-10: 1530488702
ISBN-13: 9781530488704
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2016
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.40d