Actea

Actea, a female slave faithful to Nero in his fall. It was this hetæra who wrapped the dead body in cerements, and saw it decently interred.

This Actea was beautiful. She was seated on the ground; the head of Nero was on her lap, his naked body was stretched on those winding-sheets in which she was about to fold him, to lay him in his grave upon the garden hill. -- Ouida: Ariadné, i. 7.


The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories and Poems
By The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer
A New Edition Revised Throughout and Greatly Enlarged
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Co.
1899

Rutgers University Libraries
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