Octavia: A Tale of Ancient Rome

by Seymour Van Santvoord

Excerpt from A Tale of Ancient Rome The agony of Gethsemane had barely preceded her birth in the magnificent City Of all the Gods, at a time when vice was enthroned, when sensuality was worshipped, when an apotheosis was ascribed to crime. In such a setting the revelation of a life so full Of horrors and so touchingly pathetic as that Of this rarely beautiful and unsullied Roman girl needs only the assurance, for which there seems to be foundation Of fact, that Octavia was a Christian, to arouse something akin to reverence for this victim of a debased Idea at the hand of the besotted monster who dragged her through the mire but could not destroy the whiteness Of her soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

484 pages, Hardcover

Published January 14, 2019