IN ANCIENT ROME.
NERO AND HIS HABITS. The story that Nero, the Roman Emperor who reigned in tho early years of _ tha Christian era, fiddled or played the violin while Romo was burning, is still believed by a certain number of people. Yet it was not until about 1000 years after his death that the violin, or tho instrument from which it has developed, was introduced into Europe. Apart from his immoral life, however, the Emperor caused scandal among hia subjects by mixing on more or less equal terms with professional musicians, and by competing in some of the musical tournaments which tools place in Greece. It is said that hia one regret was that he could not be both Emperor and musician by profession, and when, after his armies had been defeated by those of the people who resented his tyranny, he prepared to take his own life, his one exclamation was, “What an artist has been lost in me!”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 8
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161IN ANCIENT ROME. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 8
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