Night was far advanced and Nero was still sitting over his cups,
when Paris entered, who was generally wont at such times to heighten the
emperor's enjoyments, but who now wore a gloomy expression. He went through
the whole evidence in order, and so frightened his hearer as to make him
resolve not only on the destruction of his mother and of Plautus, but also
on the removal of Burrus from the command of the guards, as a man who had
been promoted by Agrippina's interest, and was now |