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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 4501120, member: 82616&quot;]I have the Griffin bio as well and from what I understand she makes no call on whether the story is true or not. She hints that it may have been accidental given Nero&#039;s reaction, which I agree with.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other bios I have on Nero at hand are by Grant, Warmington, and Champlin. I&#039;ll have to check out the Holland one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Normally, I tend to side with modern scholarship&#039;s revisionisms, but in this case with <i>all</i> the primary sources in agreement it&#039;s difficult to do so. It seems more probable that the incident is a sad case of domestic violence followed by profound regret.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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