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 ... waste by the Gauls. [Sidenote:—18—] While the whole population was in this state of mind and many crazed by the disaster were leaping into the blaze itself, Nero mounted to the roof of the palace, where nearly the whole conflagration could be taken in by a sweeping glance, and having assumed the lyrist's garb he sang the Taking (as he said) of Ilium, which, to the ordinary vision, however, appeared to be the ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) • Cassius Dio |
