Relating to or characteristic of the Roman Emperor Nero, especially in being cruel, tyrannical, or licentious.
Neronian persecution
Neronian debauchery
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The abandonment of the Neronian legionary fortress at Usk in South Wales in favour of a reoccupation at Gloucester symbolizes the retrenchment.
Although the Neronian residence could have been planned for Cogidubnus, the later palace seems rather too late for him.
According to Acts his journey to Jerusalem with this collection preceded his journey to Rome where later Christian tradition suggests that he died in the Neronian persecution.
It is not known when he met Demetrius the Cynic, whom he was to write about in his Neronian works.
He then demonstrates that the interpretation of ancient sources is a difficult and complex task by analyzing the accounts of four notorious Neronian episodes: Claudius' death, the wooing of Poppaea Sabina, the fiddling while Rome burned, and the emperor's dying words.
If political debate is less sharp in the Neronian books, foreign affairs and Nero's flamboyant behaviour fully extend Tacitus' descriptive powers.
He chronicles the mayor's Neronian cruelty to the poor of Chicago.
Its members and media acolytes have spent the autumn in a Neronian bicker over the survival of the prime minister, which was never in doubt, while the western financial system imploded.
Was the life of the gentleman farmer a life of Cincinnatean virtue or of Neronian debauchery?
In the Neronian period the first stone civil buildings were constructed.