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Nero
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Nero as in:  the Roman emperor

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    We should have had our Nero to fiddle while we burned.†  (source)
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    I wanted Daddy to give me Nero—a horse I liked.†  (source)
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    I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, &c.†  (source)
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    If I had staged it intentionally, I would have beaten the record of the Emperor Nero.†  (source)
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    "Or the funny papers?" said Nero Brown.†  (source)
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    His head was covered with curls, he had the lips of a faun, and all he needed was a lyre and a laurel wreath to be the image of the incendiary Nero of Christian mythology.†  (source)
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    We'll eat like Nero tonight.†  (source)
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    Did you know that the Emperor Nero had leeks served to him every day to deepen the sonority of his voice?†  (source)
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    I am like Nero—cupitor impossibilium; and that is what is amusing you at this moment.†  (source)
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    Where, the huge velarium that Nero had stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, that Titan sail of purple on which was represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by white gilt-reined steeds?†  (source)
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    Nero played a lyre.†  (source)
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    With bitter exasperation, Washington exclaimed: "I would rather be in my grave than in the Presidency"; and to Jefferson he wrote: I am accused of being the enemy of America, and subject to the influence of a foreign country ...and every act of my administration is tortured, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.†  (source)
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    The news had spread like Nero's fire.†  (source)
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