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He thought there was no other use of riches and money than to squander them away profusely; regarding all those as sordid wretches who kept their expenses within due boundsLjand extolling those as truly noble and generous souls, who lavished away and wasted all they possessed.
He praised and admired his uncle CaiusThe emperor Caligula, who was the brother of Nero's mother, Agrippina.
upon no account more, than for squandering in a short time the vast treasure left him by Tiberius.
Accordingly, he was himself extravagant and profuse, beyond all bounds.
He spent upon Tiridates eight hundred thousand sesterces a day, a sum almost incredible; and at his departure, presented him with upwards of a million.
See before, c. xiii. Tiridates was nine months in Rome or the neighbourhood, and was entertained the whole time at the emperor's expense.
He likewise bestowed upon Menecrates the harper, and Spicillus a gladiator, the estates and houses of men who had received the honour of a triumph.
Remarks on Nero
THOUGH no law had ever passed for regulating the transmission of the imperial power, yet the design of conveying it by lineal descent was implied in the practice of adoption.
By the rule of hereditary succession, Britannicus, the son of Claudius, was the natural heir to the throne; but he was supplanted by the artifices of his stepmother, who had the address to procure it for her own son, Nero.
From the time of Augustus it had been the custom of each of the new sovereigns to com ggrandisement.
In the number of these was Tigellinus, who met at last with the fate which he had so amply merited.
The several reigns from the death of Augustus present us with uncommon scenes of cruelty and horror; but it was reserved for that of Nero to exhibit to the world the atrocious act of an emperor deliberately procuring the death of his mother.
Julia Agrippina was the daughter of Germanicus, and married Domitius Enobarbus, by whom she had Nero.
At the death of Messalina she was a wido
It was thought that he likewise intended to reduce the offices held by senators and men of the equestrian order, to a term of two years' continuance; and to bestow them only on those who were unwilling to accept them, and had refused them.
All the grants of Nero he recalled, saving only the tenth part of them.
For this purpose he gave a commission to fifty Roman knights; with orders, that if players 'or wrestlers had sold what had been formerly given them, it should be exacted from the purchasers, since the others, having, no doubt spent the money, were in a condition to pay.
But on the other hand, he suffered his attendants and freedmen to sell or give away the revenue of the state, or immunities from taxes, and to punish the innocent, or pardon criminals, at pleasure.
Nay, when the Roman people were very clamorous for the punishment of Halotus and Tigellinus, two of the most mischievous amongst all the emissaries of Nero, he protected them, and even bestowed on I alotus one of the b
Having by means of this woman, insinuated himself into all the emperor's secrets, he, upon the day designed for the murder of his mother, entertained them both at a very splendid feast, to prevent suspicion.
Poppaea Sabina, for whom Nero entertained such a violent passion that he had taken her from her husband
See NERO, C. XXXV.
and entrusted her to him, he received, and went through the form of marrying her.
And not satisfied with obtaining her favour, he loved her so extravagantly, that he could not with patience bear Nero for his rival.
It is certainly believed that he not only refused admittance to those who were sent by Nero to fetch her, but that, on one occasion, he shut him out, and kept him standing before the door, mixing prayers and menaces in vain, and demanding back again what was entrusted to his keeping.
His pretended marriage, therefore, being dissolved, he was sent lieutenant into Lusitania.
This treatment of him was thought sufficiently severe, because harsher proc