Excerpt from Octavia and New Poems
The Emperor Nero having determined to rid himself of his wife, Octavia, has her banished to Pandataria, a dreary island wet with the blood of noble exiles, in the Mediterranean Sea. After having the Empress, though virtuous, accused of the vilest of crimes, he divorced her and openly celebrated his marriage to Poppaea.
Though stunned by this cruel accusation, which was worse than death, Octavia, still being...
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