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Nero
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Nero as in:  the Roman emperor

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  • In front of us stood a little church, the sort of ancient building you often find in London—a somber bit of medieval stone wedged between a Caffe Nero and a chemist's shop with neon signs offering selected hair products 3 for £1.†  (source)
  • Or Nero playing the harp while Rome burned?†  (source)
  • I wanted Daddy to give me Nero—a horse I liked.†  (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)
    Nero = Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (37-68 AD)
  • The whole town planning a parade," said Nero.†  (source)
  • If I had staged it intentionally, I would have beaten the record of the Emperor Nero.†  (source)
  • Did you know that the Emperor Nero had leeks served to him every day to deepen the sonority of his voice?†  (source)
  • We'll eat like Nero tonight.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Nero played a lyre.†  (source)
  • Nero was here beside him, and this the Roman amphitheatre.†  (source)
  • Pressing on the pedals in his Mexican shoes, he made you think of Nero acting in a tragedy.†  (source)
  • My dear Mallinson, if the man were Nero it wouldn't have to matter to us for the time being!†  (source)
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