Nero 音标拼音: [n'ɪro]
n . 尼罗
尼罗
Nero n 1 :
Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (
was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64 )
but the Roman Empire remained prosperous during his rule (
37 -
68 ) [
synonym : {
Nero }, {
Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus }, {
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus }]
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Nero (
originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ,
later Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus ).
Born at Antium ,
Italy ,
Dec .
15 ,
37 a .
d .:
committed suicide near Rome ,
June 9 ,
68 .
Roman emperor 54 -
68 ,
son of Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina (
daughter of Germanicus ).
He was adopted by his stepfather ,
the emperor Claudius ,
in 50 ,
and in 53 married Octavia ,
the daughter of Claudius by Messalina .
In 54 Claudius was poisoned by Agrippina ,
who caused her son to be proclaimed to the exclusion of Britannicus ,
the son of Claudius .
His former tutors ,
the philosopher Seneca and Burrus ,
commander of the pretorian guards ,
were placed at the head of the government ,
and the early years of his reign were marked ,
on the whole ,
by clemency and justice .
He caused his rival Britannicus to be removed by poison in 55 .
In 59 he procured the assassination of his mother ,
of whose control he had become impatient .
Burrus died in 62 ,
whereupon Seneca retired from public life .
Freed from the restraint of his former advisers ,
he gave free rein to a naturally tyrannical and cruel disposition .
He divorced Octavia in order to marry Poppaea ,
and shortly afterward put Octavia to death (
62 ).
Poppaea ultimately died from the effects of a kick administered by her brutal husband .
Having been accused of kindling the fire which in 64 destroyed a large part of Rome ,
he sought to divert attention from himself by ordering a persecution of the Christians ,
whom he accused of having caused the Conflagration .
He put Seneca to death in 65 ,
and 66 -
68 visited Greece ,
where he competed for the prizes as a musician and charioteer in the religious festivals .
He was overthrown by a revolt under Galba ,
and stabbed himself to death with the assistance of his secretary .
But the imperial Reign of Terror was limited to a comparatively small number of families in Rome .
The provinces ware undoubtedly better governed than in the later days of the Republic ,
and even in Rome itself the common people strewed flowers on the grave of Nero .
--
Hodgkin ,
Italy and her Invaders ,
I .
6 .
[
Century Dict .
1906 ]
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Nero occurs only in the superscription (
which is probably spurious ,
and is altogether omitted in the R .
V .)
to the Second Epistle to Timothy .
He became emperor of Rome when he was about seventeen years of age (
A .
D .
54 ),
and soon began to exhibit the character of a cruel tyrant and heathen debauchee .
In May A .
D .
64 ,
a terrible conflagration broke out in Rome ,
which raged for six days and seven nights ,
and totally destroyed a great part of the city .
The guilt of this fire was attached to him at the time ,
and the general verdict of history accuses him of the crime .
"
Hence ,
to suppress the rumour ,"
says Tacitus (
Annals ,
xv .
44 ),
"
he falsely charged with the guilt ,
and punished with the most exquisite tortures ,
the persons commonly called Christians ,
who are hated for their enormities .
Christus ,
the founder of that name ,
was put to death as a criminal by Pontius Pilate ,
procurator of Judea ,
in the reign of Tiberius ;
but the pernicious superstition ,
repressed for a time ,
broke out again ,
not only throughout Judea ,
where the mischief originated ,
but through the city of Rome also ,
whither all things horrible and disgraceful flow ,
from all quarters ,
as to a common receptacle ,
and where they are encouraged .
Accordingly ,
first three were seized ,
who confessed they were Christians .
Next ,
on their information ,
a vast multitude were convicted ,
not so much on the charge of burning the city as of hating the human race .
And in their deaths they were also made the subjects of sport ;
for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs ,
or nailed to crosses ,
or set fire to ,
and ,
when day declined ,
burned to serve for nocturnal lights .
Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle ,
and exhibited a Circensian game ,
indiscriminately mingling with the common people in the habit of a charioteer ,
or else standing in his chariot ;
whence a feeling of compassion arose toward the sufferers ,
though guilty and deserving to be made examples of by capital punishment ,
because they seemed not to be cut off for the public good ,
but victims to the ferocity of one man ."
Another Roman historian ,
Suetonius (
Nero ,
xvi .),
says of him : "
He likewise inflicted punishments on the Christians ,
a sort of people who hold a new and impious superstition " (
Forbes '
s Footsteps of St .
Paul ,
p .
60 ).
Nero was the emperor before whom Paul was brought on his first imprisonment at Rome ,
and the apostle is supposed to have suffered martyrdom during this persecution .
He is repeatedly alluded to in Scripture (
Acts 25 :
11 ;
Phil .
1 :
12 ,
13 ;
4 :
22 ).
He died A .
D .
68 .
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