Nero

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Makers of History

Nero

BY JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER &BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1901

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-three, by

HARPER &BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District

of New York.

Copyright, 1881, by BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT, AUSTIN ABBOTT, LYMAN

ABBOTT, and EDWARD ABBOTT.

[Illustration: ENVIRONS OF ROME.]