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Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 11:40 AM
Fortune soon afterwards made a dupe of Nero through his own credulity
and the promises of Caesellius Bassus, a Carthaginian by birth and a man
of a crazed imagination, who wrested a vision seen in the slumber of night
into a confident expectation. He sailed to Rome, and having purchased admission
to the emperor, he explained how he had discovered on his land a cave of
immense depth, which contained a vast quantity of gold, not in the form
of coin, but in the shapeless and ponderous masses of ancient days. In
fact, he said, ingots of great weight lay there, with bars standing near
them in another part of the cave, a treasure hidden for so many ages to
increase the wealth of the present. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, as he sought to show
by inference, after fleeing from Tyre and founding Carthage, had concealed
these riches in the fear that a new people might be demoralised by a superabundance
of money, or that the Numidian kings, already for other reasons hostile,
might by lust of gold be provoked to war.
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