Show D ii v rm lr S Ia BY Y ALB AlBE ALBERT PA TE R HUHE i NE Q I V I ill J u C 8 E Co 11 t t. 1012 br bJ The TLe I trae t 1 hiDA Dg Co re New Tk Yak T k k the of oi Nero i LONG oo a of cattle were wore A ALONG driven d I clail to tile the Palatine Hill t In III Rome nome and st starving people Inthe in the ilie streets turned to stare fiercely i them and curse curEe In Jn wrathful un un- un For Fo this herd herll of was kept pt solely U tf tg l supply milk for fot the bath of or tile fo and wl I t woman In wicked Home dome Sabina x gallons allons of fresh frosli h milk filled tilled 1 marble bathing pool morning and pul while the Ilse poor of or the thc elt city were dying In It hunger But Lut this wa wan was n not the tho Romans only only or or chief chief grievance ance anee n against her was tray HI one ono of or the thc old worlds world's s most moat l notorious JI She Rhe was Cut But ti much nH may happen in ten years Here are arc u fe few w of th the things tutu t occurred be between en n tl tho no time the heartsick k Otho went Into exile and the day h he e returned to avenge n the loss or ot hl his s wife Wl was divorced from th gab call sent Otho But lie seemingly she rho he heas was as n no o nearer the throne than b fore tole Fa For r savage saaG old Nero eros it mother did all a 1 desperate woman wom could do clo to to wreck eu's eus Influence with tI tho emperor But Hut 1 ea was wab yoUtH young am anti and tactful while A Agrippina was teas old oil and violent There Them could bo ho hilt but ono re result rc- rc sult to such a duel clue persuaded Nero ero to murder his hll mother This done Nh she cajoled c. him hint Into divorcing an and putting to death ills his gentle young oung wife IT lax a. a I 1 i w is t Ed E d J 1 1 C 1 S X Jl 1 f Fr d f 5 r II 1 iI I t S AL JI 4 II I I I if the daughter of Ollius a a. rich patrician Erom early girlhood she drew the hearts of ot men to her She turned a deaf ear to scores cores of suitors aiming always to marry some ono one who would advance d id vance her wealth and power She met mot the prefect one of Romes Rome's sigh high officials This ils seemed about as good a a. match as could hope for fot and she tho married mar mar- ried him But she soon found she ahe could make mak a al ore profitable marriage So there t ts 3 d t divorce and she Otho tile the most dissolute spendthrift In n tho the dissolute Imperial court Otho was wasp the Intimate friend of the Emperor Nero a rid irid his wife might hope hope- to reap the ugliest Ih-hest in tho the courts court's doubtful honors highest hopes were real- real lied l Nero met her tor and at once fell violently In love with her lIe Ho was married So was she But It Jt was an n age e of or easy divorce and Pop- Pop paea played her cards carlls brilliantly At Atthe Atthe the tote outset however howe she struck Otho with all his glaring faults fault his beautiful wife and he was too to much of a a- aman man to soil oll her ler for I personal gain or to give her up even oven to lease the tho emperor So Nero packed him Im off oU to the furthest limits of the empire making him governor governor of or the province of Otho could not refuse to go Nero had successfully I rf got him out of t the way but the robbed I jl husband vowed vengeance and ten years ears later ho he kept his vow The road was waa now clear and In A. A D D. 6 62 Nero and were married ambition was gratified at last She was empress o of Rome And that meant she was empress of the world It was a triumph for tor an any heart- heart breaker And reveled In IL H. But she did not live to enjoy var very vory long II the throne to which she had climbed b by murder and black treachery Three years after her marriage to I the emperor she met with a late fate such as never befell betell any other of or history's heartbreakers Probably almost none of them so richly dc deserved er ed It It Nero In a fit of Insane rage kicked to death And no now came the vengeance of at Otho Joining forces with Galba Galha another general he lie marched on Home thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands o or or Neros Nero's s 's enemies flocking to his standard It was a moment when delay ml might ht mean menn defeat Everything E de depended depended depended de- de on the rebels reaching Rome I before Nero could prepare to resist their attack Yet Otho halted In his onward march long enough to visit grave rave to weep there for tor his lost wife and to throw fresh flowers flo on her tomb Non etc amores Not even even then forgetful of or his time old-time love lo comments Tacitus In describing this act of ot sentiment Then Otho hastened on to Rome overthrew the man who had robbed him of or his wife wire forced Nero to kill himself and soon was procla proclaimed emperor emperor emperor em em- in the dead tyrants tyrant's place |