Nero

For you know that Acratus who went round well-nigh the whole inhabited world for this purpose and passed by not even one village, that he came here too.

And Nero, the most violent of emperors, granting himself the most and considering all things less in face of all authority, robbed no one of the image among those honoured by the Rhodians alone;

seeing that even Nero, having so great a desire and zeal about this, that he abstained neither from those of Olympia nor from those of Delphi — though he honoured these temples above all — and besides transferred the most of those from the acropolis at Athens and many of those from Pergamum, although that precinct belonged to him — for about those among others, what need to speak?

By this senatusconsult of the Emperor Nero the four forms of legacy are not entirely abolished, but the importance of their distinctions is very much diminished.

In later times, on the proposition of Nero, a senatus-consult was passed, providing that if a testator bequeathed a thing which never belonged to him, the bequest should be as valid as if it had been made in the most favourable form;

Trebellianum, passed in the reign of Nero, probably a.

And in the one week, the half of which week Nero held when he was reigning, and in the holy city Jerusalem set up the abomination;

He said that two thousand three hundred days come about from the time the abomination was set up by Nero in the holy city until its destruction.

Augustus forty-three years, Tiberius twenty-two years, Gaius four years, Claudius fourteen years, Nero fourteen years, Galba one year, Vespasian ten years, Titus three years, Domitian fifteen years, Nerva one year, Trajan nineteen years, Hadrian twenty-one years, Antoninus twenty-three years, and likewise again Antoninus and Commodus thirty-two years.

there you will find that Nero was the first to rage with the imperial sword against this sect, just as it was rising at Rome.

and they themselves, having suffered much from the persecuting Jews, surely for their confidence in the truth, gladly at last at Rome sowed the Christian blood through the savagery of Nero.

So that Nero, and King Agrippa whom Paul so earnestly entreats to become a Christian, might have embraced Christianity, and still retained, the one his regal, and the other his imperial authority, which could not be exercised without the power of the sword.

He had also asserted, that tyrants ought to be deposed and punished, as in the cases of Nero and Caligula.

to be jerked by impulses like a puppet belongs even to wild beasts, to the unmanly, to a Phalaris and a Nero.

"Would that I did not know how to write!

I have not yet heard a spirited saying that came from a good and gentle source.

That gentleness of your spirit will be handed on and will spread little by little through the whole body of the empire, and all things will be moulded into your likeness.

under Nero its condemnation gained strength — so that from this very fact you may weigh the person of the persecutor.

But Suetonius too says that Nero, and Theopompus that Thrasymedes, never dreamed, save that Nero scarcely did, at his last end, after his terrors.

For if Aristotle too notes a certain hero of Sardinia who deprives the sleepers in his fane of their visions, this too will be among the wantonness of demons, as much to take away dreams as to bring them in, so that the mark of Nero too, a late dreamer, and of Thrasymedes proceeded thence.

But I am added to no vices, spare no lethargies, no scab.

at Rome Nero was the first to stain with blood the rising faith.