The Roman Traitor or the Days of Cicero, Cato and Cataline
Herbert, Henry William (LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1853. A novel in two volumes from the author Henry William Herbert. The book begins: Midnight was over Rome. The skies were dark and lowering, and ominous of tempest, for it was a sirocco, and the welkin was overcast with sheets of vapory cloud, not very dense, indeed, or solid, but still sufficient to intercept the feeble twinkling of the stars, which alone held dominion in the firmament, since the young crescent of the ...