Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 198
n. The reception tendered by Nero to King Tyridates ofArmenia, in a. d. 66, is described by Dion Cassius in the THE LAND OF HADRIAN 165 sixth chapter of the sixty-third book: There was afeast given in the theatre of Pompey, for the celebrationof wliich the whole building was gilded. Hence thename… … A view of the Doric Court, Hadrians villa Nero driving the chariot of the sun, the whole surfacebeing dotted with stars of gold. In 1899 I found in the Vigna Serventi, on the ViaLabicana, a much humbler souvenir of a regal visit toRome, the funeral tablet of a butler or valet to KingSamsiceramus of…
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