There are 11 instances of Nero in eight chapters.
Normalized frequency of Nero in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 5.
Our Attachments Outlive Us
❯ Some may condemn the presumption of these two soldiers who replied to Nero, to his face, when one of them was asked why he wished …
- Book 1 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 11.
How We Cry and Laugh at the Same Thing
❯ believes the one or the other to be counterfeited, is an ass. Nero, taking leave of his mother whom he was sending to be drowned, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 53.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children
❯ The good Lucan, being condemned by that rascal Nero, at the last gasp of his life, when the greater part of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 63.
On Glory
❯ see the world bless the memory of Trajan, and abominate that of Nero; if it moves them to see the name of that great beast, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 2.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch
❯ the government of our late poor King Charles IX and that of Nero, compares the late Cardinal of Lorraine with Seneca; their fortunes, in having …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 10.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch
❯ Epicharis, having tired and glutted the cruelty of Nero’s satellites, and undergone their fire, their beating, their racks, a whole day …
- Book 2 · Chapter 35 · ¶ 8.
On Three Good Women
❯ Thrasea Paetus, he whose virtue was so renowned in the time of Nero, and by this son-in-law, the grandmother of Fannia: for the resemblance of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 35 · ¶ 12.
On Three Good Women
❯ very noble Roman lady, had married Seneca in his extreme old age. Nero, his fine pupil, sent his guards to him to denounce the sentence …
- Book 2 · Chapter 35 · ¶ 15.
On Three Good Women
❯ Nero, being presently informed of all this, fearing lest the death of Paulina, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 50.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers
❯ he had with Messalina, came in vogue; the empire of physic in Nero’s time was established in Thessalus, who abolished and condemned all that had …
- Book 3 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 12.
On Diversion
❯ Subrius Flavius, being by Nero’s command to be put to death, and by the hand of Niger, …