[100] Tac. Ann. xvi 21-35.

[101] ‘Nero virtutem ipsam exscindere concupivit’ ib. 21.

[102] Hist. iv 5.

[103] Tac. Hist. iv 6.

[104] See above, §§ [130], [131].

[105] See above, § [444].

[106] Tac. Hist. iv 40.

[107] ib. 43 and 44.

[108] Dill, Roman Society, p. 152.

[109] Pliny Ep. vii 19, 7.