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nero
/ˈnɪɹoʊ/
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What does nero mean?
noun
- Any cruel and wicked tyrant.
proper noun
- Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
- An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
- A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈnɪɹoʊ/
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This is the explanation of the greatest enormities that have been perpetrated by man, and the inhuman deeds of Nero and Caligula.
He was entrusted by Nero with the government of Spain, before Nero had yet learned to be apprehensive of men of great repute.
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Tiberius Nero, going to see his brother Drusus, who was sick in Germany, travelled two hundred miles in four-and-twenty hours, having three coaches.
Four centuries later, in the days of Nero, there was a man in Rome who flew so well and high as to lose his life thereby.
I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to “that poor Holofernes.”