83 No chronological account of Nero’s sojourn in Greece has survived. Estimates of when precisely he might have arrived in Corinth range from August to November.
84 Livy: 33.32
85 Cassius Dio: 63.15.1
86 Valerius Maximus: 2.4.2
87 Seneca. Letters: 80.7
88 Tacitus: 13.3
89 An ancient commentator on the satirist Juvenal tells us that an aristocratic and intimidatingly learned woman who is described by the poet as taking an interest in the arts of oratory was none other than Statilia Messalina. Scholiast on Juvenaclass="underline" 6.434
90 Seneca: 47.7. The details of how to keep boys hairless derive from Pliny: 30.41.
91 The translation of ‘Paezon’ as ‘Boy Toy’ is Champlin’s (2012), p. 380. The gasps of wonder are Pliny’s (7.129).
92 Tacitus. Histories: 1.73
93 Dio Chrysostom. On Beauty: 11
94 Cassius Dio: 63.22.1
95 From an inscription found in 1887 at Karditza, Greece. Smallwood, p. 64
96 Plutarch. Galba: 4.1
97 Seneca. On Mercy: 1.4.2
98 Virgil. Georgics: 512–14
99 Cassius Dio: 63.20.5
100 Evidence for this having been more than coincidence is circumstantial but strong.
101 Suetonius. Nero: 41
102 Ibid
103 Ibid: 43
104 Plutarch. Galba: 6.3
105 Suetonius. Nero: 47.2. The line is a quotation from Virgil.
106 Suetonius. Nero: 49.2
107 Ibid: 49.4
108 Dio Chrysostom. On Beauty: 10
109 Revelation 13.3
110 Ibid: 17.8
111 Ibid: 17.4
112 Both Suetonius (Nero: 49.1) and Cassius Dio (6.29.2) record it. It was evidently, as Dio says, ‘a much quoted saying’.
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