Servilia
Servilia, daughter of the senator Soranus, is desired by her father to
contract an alliance with Trasea, but the latter, hearing of her preference
for his adopted son Valerius, withdraws his suit. Egnatius, the freedman
of Soranus, being enamoured of Servilia, conspires against his master and
Trasea, and intimates to Servilia that her submission alone will secure
their safety. Valerius has mysteriously disappeared, and Servilia,
becoming a convert to Christianity, renounces the World. Called before
the tribunal, Trasea and Soranus are sentenced to banishment, while Servilia
is awarded to Egnatius. Valerius now returns, bearing a proclamation from
Nero that the tribunal is dissolved. The sudden reappearance of her lover
causes Servilia's death, and Valerius is only prevented from destroying
himself by the intervention of his foster-father. Egnatius, in his woe,
invokes the Divine Being, and the rest join him in acclaiming the Christian
God.
synopsis by M. Montagu Nathan, Rimsky-Korsakof, Duffield & Co.,
New York, 1917.
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