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  1     I,      1|        Tiberius, Caius, Claudius, and Nero, while they were in power,
  2     I,      3|              his son-in-law. Tiberius Nero and Claudius Drusus, his
  3     I,      3|            too having long been dead, Nero remained alone of the stepsons,
  4     I,      4|              great a burden. Tiberius Nero was of mature years, and
  5     I,      5|            was dead and that Tiberius Nero was master of the State. ~ ~
  6     I,     15|             Augustus was not spared. "Nero's wife had been taken from
  7    II,      4|          under the escort of Tiberius Nero. But neither Tigranes nor
  8    II,     57|           daughter being betrothed to Nero, the eldest of Germanicus'
  9   III,     41|               to the Senate's favour, Nero, Germanicus's son, who was
 10   III,     41|             was likewise conferred on Nero, and on the day on which
 11   III,     41|              was further increased by Nero's marriage to Julia, Drusus'
 12   III,     79|             Agrippa's death, Tiberius Nero, that there might be no
 13   III,     79|            while he had confidence in Nero's moderation and in his
 14    IV,      5|             the Senate to his brother Nero. The emperor added a speech
 15    IV,     11|           your duty and mine. To you, Nero and Drusus, these senators
 16    IV,     20|           were permitted to build it. Nero thanked the Senators and
 17    IV,     23|              s health, commended also Nero and Drusus to the same deities,
 18    IV,     71|             the mother of the emperor Nero, who handed down to posterity
 19    IV,     77|             inveigh specially against Nero, next in succession to the
 20    IV,     78|                                       Nero, while he listened to this
 21    IV,     78|              and by Livia to Sejanus. Nero's brother Drusus Sejanus
 22    IV,     78|              mother Agrippina towards Nero. And yet Sejanus, while
 23    IV,     85|    machinations against Agrippina and Nero. Soldiers hung about them,
 24    IV,     88|       question that this was aimed at Nero and Agrippina.~ ~
 25     V,      1|           children, was with Tiberius Nero, who, an exile during the
 26     V,      3|        directed against Agrippina and Nero, which was popularly believed
 27     V,      4|               images of Agrippina and Nero, thronged round the Senate-house,
 28    VI,     30|             same Thrasyllus predicted Nero's reign I shall relate when
 29    VI,     38|          Julia, Drusus's daughter and Nero's late wife, into the humbler
 30    VI,     78|               eighth year of his age. Nero was his father, and he was
 31  Miss        |              Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus), the brother
 32  Miss        |               the wife of the emperor Nero. Messalina contrived to
 33    XI,     14|            empire with the surname of Nero. The stronger popular enthusiasm
 34    XI,     14|               marvels of other lands. Nero, never a disparager of himself,
 35   XII,     31|               family with the name of Nero. Agrippina too was honoured
 36   XII,     49|            Orfitus for his colleague, Nero was prematurely invested
 37   XII,     49|              of the Senate who wished Nero to enter on the consulship
 38   XII,     49|              given to the soldiery in Nero's name, and presents to
 39   XII,     49|            wore the dress of boyhood, Nero the triumphal robe, as they
 40   XII,     49|      provocation. Once when they met, Nero greeted Britannicus by that
 41   XII,     49|        implying, in fact, contempt of Nero's adoption and a cancelling
 42   XII,     68|          Junius and Quintus Haterius, Nero, now sixteen years of age,
 43   XII,     74|           should have most power over Nero. Lepida tried to win the
 44   XII,     75|                whether Britannicus or Nero were to be emperor, but
 45   XII,     75|            grounds for accusation. If Nero were to rule, or Britannicus
 46   XII,     79|           being arranged to establish Nero on the throne. At first
 47   XII,     80|             suddenly thrown open, and Nero, accompanied by Burrus,
 48   XII,     80|             to what was offered them. Nero was conveyed into the camp,
 49  XIII,      1|       proconsul of Asia, was, without Nero's knowledge, planned by
 50  XIII,      1|     preference ought to be given over Nero, who was scarcely out of
 51  XIII,      2|            even against the wishes of Nero, with whose yet concealed
 52  XIII,      3|              fatal adoption of a son. Nero's temper however was not
 53  XIII,      3|           custom asked the watchword, Nero gave "the best of mothers."
 54  XIII,      4|            the present, observed that Nero was the first emperor who
 55  XIII,      4|           preparation, lack elegance. Nero from early boyhood turned
 56  XIII,      6|           their nation's cause before Nero, she actually was on the
 57  XIII,      8|           this and like popular talk, Nero ordered the young recruits
 58  XIII,     10|              king's hopes into fears. Nero, to compose their differences,
 59  XIII,     13|            was gradually weakened, as Nero fell in love with a freedwoman,
 60  XIII,     14|             The change did not escape Nero; his most intimate friends
 61  XIII,     16|          meaning on her words. And so Nero, furious with those who
 62  XIII,     17|                                       Nero was confounded at this,
 63  XIII,     17|             for king, the lot fell to Nero, upon which he gave all
 64  XIII,     17|              stript off all disguise. Nero saw the reproach and redoubled
 65  XIII,     17|             once to prove deadly. But Nero, impatient at such slow
 66  XIII,     18|              with their eyes fixed on Nero, who, as he still reclined
 67  XIII,     19|               days before the murder, Nero had offered the worst insult
 68  XIII,     20|           party and a leader. Of this Nero became aware, and he ordered
 69  XIII,     21|            was as nearly connected as Nero with the Divine Augustus;
 70  XIII,     21|                a freedman of Domitia, Nero's aunt. Exulting in the
 71  XIII,     22|            Night was far advanced and Nero was still sitting over his
 72  XIII,     22|             under the writers' names. Nero, in his bewilderment and
 73  XIII,     24|             me in goodwill towards my Nero. Now through her paramour,
 74  XIII,     29| licentiousness at home on the part of Nero, who in a slave's disguise,
 75  XIII,     29|            licence once granted under Nero's name, ventured with impunity
 76  XIII,     29|            forced to destroy himself. Nero was for the future more
 77  XIII,     35|              their first step, and so Nero appointed ex-praetors of
 78  XIII,     37|                                During Nero's second consulship with
 79  XIII,     41|                                       Nero entered on his third consulship
 80  XIII,     41|               of the Divine Augustus, Nero's great-grandfather, in
 81  XIII,     52|                          For all this Nero was unanimously saluted
 82  XIII,     54|              obeyed the emperor, till Nero stopped such pleadings,
 83  XIII,     58|           that he was reputed to have Nero's most ardent friendship.
 84  XIII,     59|         thoughtlessness or to inflame Nero's passion, in the hope of
 85  XIII,     59|            that she was captivated by Nero's person. Soon, as the emperor'
 86  XIII,     59|             was ever before her eyes. Nero, on the contrary, with his
 87  XIII,     60|             Otho was now cut off from Nero's usual familiar intercourse,
 88  XIII,     61|                              Hitherto Nero had sought a veil for his
 89  XIII,     61|               nightly profligacy, and Nero used to go there that he
 90  XIII,     63|       admirable as if Thrasea and not Nero had the direction of them?
 91  XIII,     65|              revenue collectors, made Nero doubt whether he should
 92  XIII,     70|             and while they waited for Nero, who was intent on other
 93  XIII,     70|             to an honourable rivalry. Nero gave both of them the Roman
 94   XIV,      1|         Vipstanus and Caius Fonteius, Nero deferred no more a long
 95   XIV,      3|             than once at midday, when Nero, even at that hour, was
 96   XIV,      3|               at her own peril and at Nero's disgrace, told him that
 97   XIV,      3|             it was not Agrippina, but Nero, who lusted for the crime,
 98   XIV,      4|                                       Nero accordingly avoided secret
 99   XIV,      5|        Misenum, who had been tutor to Nero in boyhood and had a hatred
100   XIV,      6|                                       Nero liked the device, favoured
101   XIV,      6|              table above the emperor. Nero prolonged the banquet with
102   XIV,      9|                                       Nero, meantime, as he waited
103   XIV,      9|            the crisis to be such that Nero must perish, unless Agrippina
104   XIV,     10|            the crime. At those words, Nero declared that that day gave
105   XIV,     13|              our accounts agree. That Nero gazed on his mother after
106   XIV,     13|              funeral; nor, as long as Nero was in power, was the earth
107   XIV,     14|       consulted the astrologers about Nero, they replied that he would
108   XIV,     16|             fleets? So now it was not Nero, whose brutality was far
109   XIV,     18|             for many subsequent years Nero prolonged his reign and
110   XIV,     19|                                 While Nero was lingering in the towns
111   XIV,     22|                                       Nero however, that he might not
112   XIV,     25|            emperor must be consulted. Nero, though he approved Strabo'
113   XIV,     27|                                    In Nero's fourth consulship with
114   XIV,     30|            people began to ask, as if Nero was already dethroned, who
115   XIV,     30|             flash of lightning. While Nero was reclining at dinner
116   XIV,     30|         hazardous cause. This alarmed Nero, and he wrote a letter to
117   XIV,     31|      luxurious gratification involved Nero in disgrace and danger.
118   XIV,     36|           when Tigranes arrived, whom Nero had selected to assume the
119   XIV,     37|              of Puteoli obtained from Nero the privileges of a colony
120   XIV,     40|            after heaping adulation on Nero, he added that he should
121   XIV,     51|          survey the state of Britain, Nero having great hopes that
122   XIV,     59|             so much so, in fact, that Nero when he was ill, with flatterers
123   XIV,     59|           which did not provoke envy. Nero, the same year, established
124   XIV,     63|          right of promotion. This was Nero's reason for himself undertaking
125   XIV,     64|           positively asserted that by Nero's order his throat was smeared
126   XIV,     64|            found, prejudiced him with Nero. ~ ~
127   XIV,     65|              to say, was removed, and Nero too began to lean on worse
128   XIV,     65|          passion for it had seized on Nero. "Openly inimical to the
129   XIV,     65|               have originated? Surely Nero's boyhood was over, and
130   XIV,     70|                                       Nero's reply was substantially
131   XIV,     73|       complicity in guilt, dived into Nero's most secret apprehensions,
132   XIV,     73|         conflicting aims, but only to Nero's safety, which is at least
133   XIV,     74|           head was taken to Rome, and Nero scoffed at its premature
134   XIV,     76|            were being carried back to Nero, while another force was
135   XIV,     77|               Pelago, an eunuch, whom Nero had set over the centurion
136   XIV,     78|             Why would you have been a Nero?" Then casting off all fear
137   XIV,     79|                                       Nero, on receiving this decree
138   XIV,     79|               woman who had long been Nero's mistress and ruled him
139   XIV,     79|             their position. Upon this Nero, though he did not repent
140   XIV,     80|             yet fiercer fury, or that Nero would be swayed by the popular
141   XIV,     80|             word, if it be expedient, Nero should of his own choice
142   XIV,     80|              despair of Octavia being Nero's wife, they will soon find
143   XIV,     82|               intrigue with Octavia." Nero then promised him a secret
144   XIV,     83|                                       Nero meanwhile declared by edict
145   XIV,     86|                        That same year Nero was believed to have destroyed
146   XIV,     86|     unsuccessful conspiracies against Nero. ~ ~
147    XV,     17|          permission to send envoys to Nero. ~ ~
148    XV,     19|            was to enter Armenia until Nero's reply arrived as to whether
149    XV,     21|          fears about foreign affairs, Nero threw the people's corn,
150    XV,     21|                by an accidental fire. Nero next appointed three ex-consuls,
151    XV,     28|            lightning, and a statue of Nero within it was melted down
152    XV,     29|          Regulus and Verginius Rufus, Nero welcomed with something
153    XV,     32|              had wrested from us, and Nero consulted with the chief
154    XV,     38|              it only from the hand of Nero. The interview then ended
155    XV,     38|              on the chair a statue of Nero. To this Tiridates advanced,
156    XV,     39|        prepared a suppliant letter to Nero. ~ ~
157    XV,     42|              yet keener impulse urged Nero to show himself frequently
158    XV,     43|             harm to anyone. Thereupon Nero in an elaborate ode thanked
159    XV,     44|                                 While Nero was frequently visiting
160    XV,     44|               his arms. A speech from Nero followed, as usual, which
161    XV,     47|                                       Nero, to win credit for himself
162    XV,     47|              brilliantly with lights. Nero, who polluted himself by
163    XV,     49|                                       Nero at this time was at Antium,
164    XV,     50|        Tigellinus, and it seemed that Nero was aiming at the glory
165    XV,     52|                                       Nero meanwhile availed himself
166    XV,     52|          would be no adequate result. Nero, however, with his love
167    XV,     53|           tenements. These colonnades Nero promised to erect at his
168    XV,     54|             to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted
169    XV,     55|                                       Nero offered his gardens for
170    XV,     56|               was prepared for him at Nero's command by his own freedman,
171    XV,     57|             been so profound a peace. Nero, however, had ordered the
172    XV,     58|               too appeared, for which Nero always made propitiation
173    XV,     59|             rivalry, out of hatred of Nero as well as a liking for
174    XV,     60|              of personal motives, for Nero tried to disparage the fame
175    XV,     60|           vice, had been satirised by Nero in a lampoon, and was bent
176    XV,     61|               specially intimate with Nero, still kept up a show of
177    XV,     61|           sudden resolution to attack Nero when singing on the stage,
178    XV,     62|         Proculus, who had been one of Nero's instruments in his mother'
179    XV,     62|       divulged to her his services to Nero and their barren result
180    XV,     62|            numerous opportunities, as Nero delighted in frequent enjoyment
181    XV,     63|         reported what he had heard to Nero. For Epicharis being summoned
182    XV,     63|              detained in custody, for Nero suspected that even what
183    XV,     65|        conspiracy, and who would pity Nero as the victim of a crime.
184    XV,     65|             in the conspiracy, though Nero on that charge gratified
185    XV,     68|             the gatekeepers to one of Nero's freedmen, Epaphroditus,
186    XV,     68|           Epaphroditus, and by him to Nero, whom he informed of the
187    XV,     71|               or to win the favour of Nero, who hated Seneca and sought
188    XV,     72|                                       Nero, meanwhile, remembering
189    XV,     72|     accomplices indiscriminately, and Nero was more and more alarmed,
190    XV,     73|            the savage questionings of Nero and Tigellinus were added
191    XV,     74|              all-powerful. Against it Nero has taken no precaution.
192    XV,     75|               recently enlisted, whom Nero had selected, because he
193    XV,     75|               loathsome flatteries of Nero, was a concession to his
194    XV,     76|                   In quick succession Nero added the murder of Plautius
195    XV,     78|             one knew this better than Nero, who had oftener experienced
196    XV,     79|           evils to come? Who knew not Nero's cruelty? After a mother'
197    XV,     82|                                       Nero meanwhile, having no personal
198    XV,     82|                as long as she dreaded Nero's relentlessness, she sought
199    XV,     84|         Seneca's knowledge, that when Nero had been slain by Piso's
200    XV,     84|          actor succeeded him." For as Nero used to sing to the harp,
201    XV,     86|             confession. Questioned by Nero as to the motives which
202    XV,     87|            more terror on the ears of Nero, who was as unused to be
203    XV,     87|              vaunted his brutality to Nero, saying that he had slain
204    XV,     88|              example of fortitude. To Nero's question why he had conspired
205    XV,     89|                                       Nero waited in the hope that
206    XV,     89|              and dangerous associate. Nero's hatred of him had had
207    XV,     89|            emperor's cowardice, while Nero feared the high spirit of
208    XV,     90|           crime nor accuser appeared, Nero, being thus unable to assume
209    XV,     90|             they were dismissed, when Nero, having pictured to himself
210    XV,     93|               he was in fact hated by Nero, because he had once been
211    XV,     94|           this having been completed, Nero assembled the troops and
212    XV,     96|                                       Nero meanwhile summoned the Senate,
213    XV,     96|           admitted by those who after Nero's death returned to the
214    XV,     97|              called after the name of Nero. A temple also was to be
215    XV,     97|          public expense to the Divine Nero. He implied indeed by this
216   XVI,      1|             afterwards made a dupe of Nero through his own credulity
217   XVI,      2|                                       Nero upon this, without sufficiently
218   XVI,      4|       shameful exposure on the stage. Nero, however, repeatedly declared
219   XVI,      6|        however, a public funeral, and Nero himself from the rostra
220   XVI,      7|            shamelessness and cruelty, Nero added fresh and greater
221   XVI,      8|                                       Nero next denounced Silanus himself
222   XVI,      8|              his uncle's destruction. Nero then procured persons, under
223   XVI,      8|           insignificant, escaped from Nero, who was busy with crimes
224   XVI,     10|              gross misdeeds, and whom Nero now released as a recompense
225   XVI,     11|             was forbidden to approach Nero, she would haunt his doors;
226   XVI,     12|         punished in ancient fashion." Nero interposed his veto, allowing
227   XVI,     15|               for repeated satires on Nero, having heard that there
228   XVI,     15|             that Anteius was hated by Nero for his love of Agrippina,
229   XVI,     16|               skill in arms, had made Nero, who was always timid and
230   XVI,     18|               in Lucanus's name. This Nero examined, and ordered it
231   XVI,     19|      affecting vice, he was chosen by Nero to be one of his few intimate
232   XVI,     20|           their last moments, flatter Nero or Tigellinus or any other
233   XVI,     20|             the account under seal to Nero. Then he broke his signet-ring,
234   XVI,     21|                                  When Nero was in doubt how the ingenious
235   XVI,     22|                                       Nero after having butchered so
236   XVI,     22|            conspicuous encouragement. Nero's displeasure at this was
237   XVI,     22|      sentenced to death for libels on Nero, Thrasea proposed and carried
238   XVI,     24|        discord is now talking of you, Nero, and of Thrasea, as it talked
239   XVI,     25|             Senate to decide for us." Nero further stimulated the eager
240   XVI,     26|              foreign affairs, or that Nero might display his imperial
241   XVI,     27|             down, but wrote a note to Nero, in which he demanded to
242   XVI,     27|              refuting them. This note Nero received with eagerness,
243   XVI,     28|          miracle might impress even a Nero. But should he persist in
244   XVI,     29|           hope we are aiming to touch Nero with shame for his abominations,
245   XVI,     34|         safety of her family, whether Nero could be appeased, and the
246   XVI,     41|           about the last two years of Nero's reign.]~ ~THE END~
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