The author is obviously aware that he does not have the elements of a narrative flow, illustrated by the placement of his section on the formation of the fundamental municipal, bcolonial/b, state, and federal governmental units toward b....../b He deplores Nero's Christian persecution (though he obviously had contempt for the ?notoriously depraved? victims) and I believe the account of Nero's murder of his mother bAgrippina/b does not appear in such detail in The Twelve Caesars. ...
