1. nero - Noun
2. Nero - Proper noun
A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. Walter Bagehot
There live Christ and Nero in our hearts. Antoni Lange
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. Constantine P. Cavafy
At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero. Edward Thomas (poet)
Nero omi median, nai Demi Mooren. Finnish Proverb