According to Tacitus, in 58, Nero became involved with the noble woman Poppaea Sabina.

According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.

According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.

According to Teichmann, Ferber once described Woollcott as " a New Jersey Nero who has mistaken his pinafore for a toga.

According to Tacitus, Nero became jealous of Lucan and forbade him to publish his poems.

According to Suetonius, Nero lost interest in Lucan and Lucan responded by writing insulting poems about Nero that Nero continued to ignore.

According to Cassius Dio, Terentius Maximus resembled Nero in voice and appearance and, like him, sang to the lyre.

According to Suetonius, he was born with the praenomen Decimus, but it was later changed to Nero-an unusual example of using a second cognomen as a praenomen rather than an agnomen: " Nero " was a traditional cognomen of the Claudius family, whereas " Drusus " originally belonged to the Livius dynasty.

According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christian s as those responsible for the fire.

According to Tacitus, upon hearing news of the fire, Nero rushed back to Rome to organize a relief effort, which he paid for from his own funds.

According to Tacitus, some in the population held Nero responsible, as soon after he built himself a huge house in the center of Rome called the " Golden House ".

According to Tacitus, Nero ordered Christians to be thrown to dogs, while others were crucified or burned to serve as lights.

According to Baring-Gould, Holmes and Adler's union produced one son, Nero Wolfe, who would follow in his father's footsteps as a detective.

According to Suetonius, while she was awaiting the birth of her second child in the summer of 65, she quarreled fiercely with Nero over his spending too much time at the races.

According to department legend, Nero is the canine depicted on the seal, and may have been the origin ( or at least the inspiration ) of the term " Watchdog of the Treasury ".

According to Audible's website, they can be burned to CD using Apple's iTunes and some versions of Nero.

According to John McAleer's Edgar Award-winning Rex Stout: A Biography ( 1977 ), it was the influence of Adamic that led Rex Stout to make his fictional detective Nero Wolfe a native of Montenegro, in what was then Yugoslavia.

According to Church tradition, it was during the reign of Nero that Peter and Paul were martyred in Rome.

According to Suetonius, years later Nero would have nightmares about his mother and Octavia.

According to Claudian, Stilicho was in a position to destroy the Goths when he was ordered by Arcadius to leave Illyricum.

According to Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.

According to him, over time, three different theories have emerged: ( a ) Campbell ordered the demolition on his own authority ( b ) under instructions from the British Government ( c ) upon request of Spanish General Castaños, who was at the time in Cádiz.

According to Aurelius Victor and Zonaras, on hearing the news of Gallienus ' death, the Senate at Rome ordered the execution of his family ( including his brother Valerianus and son Marinianus ) and their supporters, just before receiving a message from Claudius to spare their lives and deify his predecessor.

According to Caesar, the captured Roman soldiers were ordered to pass through under a yoke set up by the triumphant Gauls, a dishonour that called for both public as well as private vengeance.

According to the pro-Formosan Eugenius Vulgarius, Sergius ordered both men to be strangled in prison sometime in early 904.

According to both Roddenberry and an NBC press release, this was the justification for six additional episodes being ordered by the network for the series ' second season.

According to, the Persian emperor, Cyrus the Great ( reigned 559 BCE – 530 BCE ), permitted the return of the exiles to their homeland and ordered the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem ( Zion ).

According to Donald Morris in this mourning period Shaka ordered that no crops should be planted during the following year, no milk ( the basis of the Zulu diet at the time ) was to be used, and any woman who became pregnant was to be killed along with her husband.

According to the 1463 Chronica Austriae by chronicler Thomas Ebendorfer the duke on 23 May 1420, at the behest of the Church, ordered the imprisonment and forcible conversion of the Jews.

According to legend, when required to kiss the foot of King Charles, as a condition of the treaty, he refused to perform so great a humiliation, and when Charles extended his foot to Rollo, Rollo ordered one of his warriors to do so in his place.

According to the record of the Silsilah Raja-raja Sulu, when Ong Sum Ping first arrived at Brunei with many Chinese, he said that he was ordered to collect jewelry in Sabah, and the mountain was named Gunung Kinabalu.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Xerxes's first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges ; Xerxes ordered the Hellespont ( the strait itself ) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water.

According to some, quantum mechanics is more strongly ordered than Classical Mechanics, because while Classical Mechanics is chaotic, quantum mechanics is not.

According to a reconstructed inscription found on the site, " the emperor Vespasian ordered this new amphitheatre to be erected from his general's share of the booty.

According to the late tradition, Munuza, the Berber governor of Iegione ( either Gijón or León ), became attracted to Pelagius ' sister and sent word to Tariq ibn Ziyad, who ordered him to capture Pelagius and send him to Córdoba.

According to an historical narrative on the event titled " Chief Left Hand ", by Margaret Coel, contributing factors that led to the massacre were: Governor Evans ' desire to hold title to the resource rich Denver-Boulder area ; government trust officials ' avoidance of Chief Left Hand ( a linguistically gifted Southern Arapaho chief ), when executing a legal treaty that transferred title of the area away from Indian Trust ; a local cavalry stretched thin by the demands of the Civil War ; the hijacking of their supplies by a few stray Indian warriors who had lost respect for their chiefs and followers of Chief Left Hand ( including a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, a few well behaved warriors, and mostly women and children ), who had received a message to report to Fort Lyon with the promise of safety and food at the Fort, or risk being considered " hostile " and ordered killed by the cavalry.

According to some sources, he ordered the burning of most of the extant Aztec books claiming that they contained lies.

According to one report, Louis ordered Pitau to " make him a piece to remember ", and Pitau took two years on the piece, resulting in a " triangular-shaped 69-carat gem the size of a pigeon's egg that took the breath away as it snared the light, reflecting it back in bluish-grey rays.

According to Josephus, Titus had ordered that the Temple should not be destroyed, but while the fighting around the gates continued, a soldier hurled a torch inside one of the windows, which quickly set the entire building ablaze.

According to the indictment, the five ordered Calvi's murder to prevent the banker " from using blackmail power against his political and institutional sponsors from the world of Masonry, belonging to the P2 lodge, or to the Institute for Religious Works ( the Vatican Bank ) with whom he had managed investments and financing with conspicuous sums of money, some of it coming from Cosa Nostra and public agencies ".

According to the magistrates who indicted Licio Gelli, P2's headmaster, and Giuseppe Calò for Calvi's murder, Gelli would have ordered his death to punish him for embezzlement of his and the mafia's money, while the mafia wanted to stop him from revealing the way Calvi helped it in money laundering.

According to Procopius, his brother Reparatus was one of the senators taken hostage by Witigis, but managed to escape before the Ostrogothic king ordered their slaughter in 537.

According to the Liber pontificalis on 20 November, while the pope was celebrating the Feast of St. Cecilia in the Church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere, and before the service was fully ended, he was ordered by the imperial official Anthimus to start at once on the journey to Constantinople.

According to Benson Lossing in 1856, who claimed to have a wax impression, Congress later ordered a version half the size to impress wax and paper.