QVO VADIS Report from Nero By Henryk Sienkiewicz

Petronius only awoke at noon, very tired, as usual. He had been with Nero on the night before last night and had been late for the night. Recently, his health had begun to shake. In the mornings, when he woke up, he complained that he was quite elusive and unable to gather his thoughts. But when the trained slaves in the morning bath had carefully shaped his body, so the lazy blood came back, the man woke up and refreshed, his powers returned, and he left oleo-calcium, i.e. The eyes of the last bath of the baths, as if born again, radiate intelligence and carelessness, jealous, desperate, behaving as a man of the world, and seeming coldness. Otho himself would not have been able to compete with him. He did not own the name of "beauty judge", "arbiter elegantiarum".In the public baths, he rarely visited: only when there was an excellent speaker from the city, or when there were particularly exciting pressures in the ephebium. Had his own "Insulas" baths, which Celer, Severus' famous contemporary had expanded and decorated for him, even with such an excellent sensation that Nero himself preferred them as imperial baths - even though the latter were more spacious and all the more handsome.He had to listen to the wretched waves of the Vatini in those chunks and take part in the discussion between Nero, Lucanus and Seneca on whether the woman had a soul? She got up late and went to the bath where two giant slaves dropped her on a long cypress tree, covered with a white Egyptian bycash cloth. Then they baptized their palms with a delicate oil and began to rub his beautiful body. With closed eyes, Petronius waited for a warm bath. The heat from the hands of the masseurs flowed into him and expelled fatigue as he swept.