Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire was touched by his appeal and inclined to mercy, but his
freedmen prevailed on him not to let any indulgence be shown to a player
when so many illustrious citizens had fallen. "It mattered not whether
he had sinned so greatly from choice or compulsion." Even the defence of
Traulus Montanus, a Roman knight, was not admitted. A young man of pure
life, yet of singular beauty, he had been summoned and dismissed within
the space of one night by Messalina, who |