The life of the twelve Césars (6/12): Nero - Part II

The life of the twelve Césars (6/12)): Nero - Part I

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XXVII.He spreads his vices in the open.Its public dinners

Little by little his vices developed, to such an extent that, leaving there all jokes and all mystery, he spoke publicly in the greatest excesses, without worrying about the care to hide them.He extended his midnight midday meals.Often he took hot baths, and during the summer, snow baths.Sometimes he united in public, either in the Naumachie he had to close, or in the Champ de Mars or in the Grand Cirque, and was served by all the courtesans and all the dancers in Rome.When he descended the Tiber to go to Ostia, or he passed in front of the Gulf of Baïes, we had, along the shore, guinguettes and magnificent places of debauchery for the matrons who, placed there like hostesses,called him from all sides and invited him to land at home.He invited himself to supper with his friends.He cost one of them four million seats, for a feast with tiaras, and even more to another for a banquet with roses.

XXVIII.His adultery.Her wedding with sporus.His incestuous passion for Agrippine

Not to mention his debauchery with free men, and his adulterous loves, Néron violated a vestal named Rubria.He was on the verge of marrying his acted in legitimate marriage in legitimate marriage, and he aposta consular characters to swear that she was of royal blood.He made Eunuque the young sporus and claimed to be transformed into a woman.He brought him to his court with a considerable suite, constituted a dowry, the Orna of the nuptial veil, and married him by observing all the ceremonies of use.This is what made someone say quite spiritually, that he would have been [...]]