Makers of History
Nero
By JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1901
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three, by
Harper & Brothers,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern Districtof New York.
Copyright, 1881, by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin
Abbott, Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott.
Environs of Rome.PREFACE.
In writing the series of historical narratives to which the presentwork pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish tothe reading community of this country an accurate and faithfulaccount of the lives and actions of the several personages that aremade successively the subjects of the volumes, following preciselythe story which has come down to us from ancient times. The writerhas spared no pains to gain access in all cases to the originalsources of information, and has confined himself strictly to them.The reader may, therefore, feel assured in perusing any one of theseworks, that the interest of it is in no degree indebted to theinvention of the author. No incident, however trivial, is ever addedto the original account, nor are any words even, in any case,attributed to a speaker without express authority. Whatever ofinterest, therefore, these stories may possess, is due solely to thefacts themselves which are recorded in them, and to their beingbrought together in a plain, simple, and connected narrative.