Did Nero really say 'I will build a new Rome, a golden city!'?

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I will build a new Rome, a golden city!

— Nero Contemporary · Roman Emperor, fiddled while Rome burned

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Reported by Tacitus, after the Great Fire of Rome, referring to his Domus Aurea.

Date: 64 AD

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