Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, 37 – 68 AD. Originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, fifth emperor of Rome, the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Emperor Nero. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor’s Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.

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