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Definition of Neronian in English: Neronianadjective nəˈrəʊnɪən Relating to or characteristic of the Roman Emperor Nero, especially in being cruel, tyrannical, or licentious. Example sentencesExamples - The abandonment of the Neronian legionary fortress at Usk in South Wales in favour of a reoccupation at Gloucester symbolizes the retrenchment.
- Although the Neronian residence could have been planned for Cogidubnus, the later palace seems rather too late for him.
- According to Acts his journey to Jerusalem with this collection preceded his journey to Rome where later Christian tradition suggests that he died in the Neronian persecution.
- It is not known when he met Demetrius the Cynic, whom he was to write about in his Neronian works.
- He then demonstrates that the interpretation of ancient sources is a difficult and complex task by analyzing the accounts of four notorious Neronian episodes: Claudius' death, the wooing of Poppaea Sabina, the fiddling while Rome burned, and the emperor's dying words.
- If political debate is less sharp in the Neronian books, foreign affairs and Nero's flamboyant behaviour fully extend Tacitus' descriptive powers.
- He chronicles the mayor's Neronian cruelty to the poor of Chicago.
- Its members and media acolytes have spent the autumn in a Neronian bicker over the survival of the prime minister, which was never in doubt, while the western financial system imploded.
- Was the life of the gentleman farmer a life of Cincinnatean virtue or of Neronian debauchery?
- In the Neronian period the first stone civil buildings were constructed.
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