Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1896
Christians and Nero's Rome (translated by Jeremiah Curtin). Read Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz page by page and explore its network of 1,445 people, places…
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 elæothesium, that is, the last division of the bath, as if he had risen from the dead, with…
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