Nero Caesar
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
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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.
I have resolved to write on mercy, Nero Caesar, so as to serve in a manner as a mirror, and to show you to yourself on the point of arriving at the greatest pleasure of all.
You have coveted that rarest of praises, granted to no prince before now—guiltlessness.
this, Caesar, is true clemency, which you display, which began not from repentance of savagery, which has no stain, which has never shed the blood of fellow citizens;
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.