But fortune was about to make a fool of Nero. For he credulously believed a lunatic Carthaginian named Caesellius Bassus.This man put faith in a dream, left for Rome, and bribed his way into the emperor's presence. Addressing Nero, he alledged the discovery on his estate of an immensely deep cave containing masses of gold, not in coin but in ancient, unworked bullion. There were ponderous ingots lying about and standing like columns, he said-all hidden centuries ago. His expl