Neronian

This period falls into three subdivisions; (1) poets of the Augustan age; (2) those of what may roughly be called the Neronian age, about the middle of the first century; and (3) those of the brief and partial renascence of art and letters under Hadrian, which, before the accession of Commodus, had again sunk away, leaving a period of some centuries almost wholly without either, but for the beginnings of

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

But the fact of this Taube having accomplished such a raid with the sole design of bombarding a cathedral in a peaceful city, 100 kilometres off from the military operations -- is it not the most patent and evident demonstration of the kind of Neronian dilettantism which, along with calculation, inspires the crimes of the barbarians?

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Various

The ballroom at Government House is truly impressive, the most Neronian gesture in a great house which, since the 1870s, has trumpeted the colossal wealth and even greater pride of colonial Victoria.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

These gestures are as insistently Neronian as the genocide was evidently accomplished in short order.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

These gestures are as insistently Neronian as the genocide was evidently accomplished in short order.

We're the Hekawi 2009

I can still see his large, Neronian head just rising above the floor: his feet had refused to carry him to the top of the staircase and into the pestilential room.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

There was something absurd about his carefully arranged Neronian curls, but something magnificent about his bearing.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

I can still see his large, Neronian head just rising above the floor: his feet had refused to carry him to the top of the staircase and into the pestilential room.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

I can still see his large, Neronian head just rising above the floor: his feet had refused to carry him to the top of the staircase and into the pestilential room.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

There was something absurd about his carefully arranged Neronian curls, but something magnificent about his bearing.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009