He journeys to Greece in order to become Periodonikes (chapters 8-10).

With the help of Tigillinus and Crispinilla he lays Greece waste:  Helius and Polycletus perform the same office for Rome and Italy (chapters 11, 12).

Nero’s marriages and abominations with Sporus and Pythagoras (chapter 13).

His victories and proclamation:  frenzy against Apollo:  hatred toward the senators (chapters 14, 15).

Digging a canal through the Isthmus (chapter 16).

Demise of the Scribonii, of Corbulo, of Paris, of the Sulpicii (chapters 17, 18).

At the solicitation of Helius, Nero returning conducts an Iselasticum triumph (chapters 19-21).

Vindex’s conspiracy against Nero, and his extinction (chapters 22-24).

Rufus, saluted as Caesar and Augustus, refuses the sovereignty (chapter 25).

Nero’s flight and demise (chapters 26-29).

DURATION OF TIME.

C. Lucius Telesinus, C. Suetonius Paulinus. (A.D. 66 = a.u. 819 = Thirteenth of Nero, from Oct. 13th).

Fonteius Capito, Iunius Rufus. (A.D. 67 = a.u. 820 = Fourteenth of Nero).

C. Silius Italicus, Galerius Trachalus Turpilianus. (A.D. 68 = a.u. 821, to June 9th).

[Sidenote:  A.D. 66 (a.u. 819)] [Sidenote:—­1—­] In the consulship of Gaius Telesinus and Suetonius Paulinus one event of great glory and another of deep disgrace took place.  For one thing Nero contended among the zither-players, and after Menecrates, [Footnote:  This proper name is the result of an emendation by Reimar.]the teacher of this art, had celebrated a triumph for him in the hippodrome, he appeared as a charioteer.  For the other, Tiridates presented himself in Rome, bringing with him not only his own children but those of Vologaesus, of Pacorus, and of Monobazus.  They were the objects of interest in a quasi-triumphal procession through the whole country west from the Euphrates. [Sidenote:—­2—­] Tiridates himself was in the prime of life, a notable figure by reason of his youth, beauty, family, and intelligence:  and his whole train of servants together with the entourage of a royal court accompanied the advance.  Three thousand Parthian horsemen and besides them numerous Romans followed his train.  They were received by gaily decorated cities and by peoples who shouted their compliments aloud.  Provisions were furnished them free of cost, an expenditure of twenty myriads for their daily support being thus charged to the public treasury.  This went on without change for the nine months occupied in their journey.  The prince covered the whole distance to the confines of Italy on horseback and beside him rode his wife, wearing a golden helmet in place of a veil, so as not to defy the traditions of her country by letting her face be seen.  In Italy he was conveyed in a two-horse carriage sent by Nero and met the emperor at Naples, which he reached by way of