Today's installment concludes Nero's Rome Burns,the name of our combined selection from Henryk Sienkiewic and Tacitus. The concluding installment,

Though great was the beauty of the city, in its renovated form, the older inhabitants remembered many decorations of the ancient which could not be

When Terpnos gave him a golden lute, he raised his eyes to the sky, filled with the conflagration, as if he were waiting for inspiration.Continuing

Never since the invasion by the Gauls under Brennus had Rome beheld such disaster.Continuing Nero's Rome Burns,with a selection from Quo Vadis by

The destruction seemed as irresistible, perfect, and pitiless as Predestination itself.Continuing Nero's Rome Burns,with a selection from Quo

From the heights on which Rome was founded the flames flowed like waves of the sea into the valleys densely occupied by houses.Continuing Nero's

The roads were blocked by piles of goods, borne from the fire previously, boxes, barrels of provisions, furniture the most costly, vessels, infants'

Men of this wild and unrestrained crowd -- Asiatics, Africans, Greeks, Thracians, Germans, Britons -- howling in every language of the earth, raged,