person
Nero
also: Nerone
Roman emperor AD 54–68, last of the Julio-Claudians; Pliny cites his mocking deification of Claudius.
Reading notes
- The Letters §1.5.1 Nero
The emperor Nero (r. AD 54-68), under whom Regulus had begun his career as an accuser.
- Panegyric to Trajan §11 Nero
Emperor AD 54–68, last of the Julio-Claudians, here cited for cynically deifying Claudius.
- Panegyric to Trajan §53 Nero, but lately avenged
An allusion to Domitian, who is said to have punished men for slandering the dead Nero — Pliny's barb that Domitian protected a tyrant's memory because he was so like him.