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"Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. It's coming home to ROMA."

- Gaius Suetonius Gigainus

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In 59 AD, the Emperor Nero was determined to have his mother murdered. Suetonius claims Nero tried to poison her three times, then tried to have the ceiling fall in on her, then had men crash into his mother's boat and sink it. Eventually Nero had his mother assassinated

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