Project Gutenberg 2019-07-04 Public domain in the USA. 135 Eckstein, Ernst 1845 1900 Safford, Mary J. (Mary Joanna) 1842 1916 Safford, Mary Joanna The Chaldean Magician An Adventure in Rome in the Reign of the Emperor Diocletian Produced by MFR, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Chaldean Magician" by Ernst Eckstein is a historical novel set in the late 19th century. The story unfolds in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Diocletian, focusing on the intense and intricate relationship between two young friends, Lucius Rutilius and Caius Bononius. Their lives become complicated by the presence of a Chaldean magician, Olbasanus, who casts a dark prophecy that threatens their happiness and love interests. The opening of the novel introduces us to a captivating scene on a beautiful October evening in A.D. 299, where Lucius Rutilius encounters his friend Caius Bononius while grappling with new, tumultuous feelings for a woman named Hero. Tension escalates when Lucius reveals that he is deeply in love with Hero, only to be met with the ominous warning from the Chaldean magician regarding their ill-fated future together. They soon learn of a dark prophecy that predicts misfortune, particularly for Lucius, stemming from his affection for Hero. This sets the stage for a journey filled with emotion, moral dilemmas, and the supernatural, as the friends seek to navigate the fallout of Olbasanus's foreboding declarations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 69.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Rome -- History -- Diocletian, 284-305 -- Fiction PT Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels 154622 2025-07-24T03:46:38.619208 text/html 152612 2019-07-03T19:44:14 text/html 169884 2025-07-24T03:46:41.881167 application/epub+zip 168685 2025-07-24T03:46:39.159201 application/epub+zip 134313 2025-07-24T03:46:38.876182 application/epub+zip 219100 2025-07-24T03:46:44.188162 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 199068 2025-07-24T03:46:41.585158 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 165303 2022-09-27T04:03:39.482276 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 137169 2025-07-24T03:46:38.381214 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 137493 2019-07-03T19:44:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18821 2025-07-24T03:46:44.340123 application/rdf+xml 16108 2025-07-24T03:46:38.951177 image/jpeg 2274 2025-07-24T03:46:38.913150 image/jpeg 53762 2019-07-03T19:44:16 application/octet-stream application/zip 128558 2019-07-03T19:44:16 application/octet-stream application/zip 132324 2025-07-24T03:46:38.638183 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia