THE BURNING OF ROME OR A STORY OF THE DAYS OF NERO

IN this tale I have closely followed the lines of Tacitus's narrative, though I have idealized the character of . Claudia, the British Princess,

on whose marriage with a certain Pudens Martial writes an epigram, may, perhaps, be identified with the Claudia whose salutation St. Paul conveys in his Second Epistle to Timothy. I should have been glad to identify her husband with the Pudens whose name stands so near to hers, but the difficulty of doing so seems insuperable.