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Updated: May 23, 2025

Martial, indeed, alludes to Nero as a well- known type of crime: "Quid Nerone peius? Quid thermis melius Neronianis?" but he has no real passion. The only thing he really hates him for is his having slain Lucan.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius