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STAGNUM NERONIS

the artificial pond constructed by Nero within the DOMUS AUREA (q.v.), in the low ground between the Velia, the Esquiline, and the Caelian, where the Colosseum was afterwards built (Suet. Nero 31 :stagnum maris instar, circumsaeptum aedificiis ad urbium speciem; Mart. de spect. ii. 5-6: hic ubi conspicui venerabilis amphitheatri / erigitur moles, stagna Neronis erant).

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