c. AD 120

Suet. Nero 50

The Life of Nero Chapter 50

Author
Suetonius
Translator
J. C. Rolfe

The Life of Nero

Chapter 50

Suetonius

translated by J. C. Rolfe

50He was buried at a cost of two hundred thousand sesterces and laid out in white robes embroidered with gold, which he had worn on the Kalends of January. His ashes were deposited by his nurses, Egloge and Alexandria, accompanied by his mistress Acte, in the family tomb of the Domitii on the summit of the Hill of Gardens, which is visible from the Campus Martius. In that monument his sarcophagus of porphyry, with an altar of Luna marble standing above it, is enclosed by a balustrade of Thasian stone.