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DavidDvorkin

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7. Nero helped fight the fire

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Sat Sep 30, 2017, 11:51 AM

Sep 2017

According to Tacitus, Nero was away from Rome, in Antium, when the fire broke out. He returned to the city and took measures to bring in food supplies and open gardens and public buildings to accommodate refugees. (From Wikipedia)

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