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Notes Display Latin text | Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Book XVI Chapter 2: Nero as a treasure hunter (cont.)[AD 65] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Nero upon this, without sufficiently examining the credibility of the author [Note 1] of the story, or of the matter itself, or sending persons through whom he might ascertain whether the intelligence was true, himself actually encouraged the report and despatched men to bring the spoil, as if it were already acquired. They had triremes assigned them and crews specially selected to promote speed. Nothing else at the time was the subject of the credulous gossip of the people, and of the very different conversation of thinking persons. It happened, too, that the quinquennial games were being celebrated for the second time, and the orators took from this same incident their chief materials for eulogies on the emperor. "Not only," they said, "were there the usual harvests, and the gold of the mine with its alloy, but the earth now teemed with a new abundance, and wealth was thrust on them by the bounty of the gods." These and other servile flatteries they invented, with consummate eloquence and equal sycophancy, confidently counting on the facility of his belief. Note 1: author = Caesellius Bassus Event: Nero as a treasure hunter |