Nero Caesar
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Nero · Caesar · the prince · you
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Institutes of Roman Law
Roman emperor under whose authority the senatusconsultum Neronianum was passed.
postea uero auctore Nerone Caesare senatusconsultum factum est, quo cautum est, ut si eam rem quisque legauerit quae eius numquam fuerit, proinde utile sit legatum, atque si optimo iure relictum esset;
On Mercy
The young Roman emperor to whom Seneca addresses the treatise On Mercy, praised as a model of natural, uncorrupted clemency.
your principate is appraised by its first taste.
Above all, however, admiration for your mercy has reached high and low alike;
You have coveted that rarest of praises, granted to no prince before now—guiltlessness.
Adversus Judaeos
Roman emperor counted with his regnal length in the chronological reckoning toward the destruction of Jerusalem.
Nero Caesar, eleven years, nine months, thirteen days.