Neronic

Not everyone can take the sadism which Puccini admitted, perhaps ironically, sprang from his own "Neronic" tendencies.

Tosca; La fille du régiment; Takacs Quartet 2010

It must be late, for it attempts to explain the delay in the Second Coming - which means that it must post-date the lifetimes of many who heard Jesus, but Peter died about 62 CE, in the Neronic persecution.

A Theological Perspective on Why the Sky Is Blue - The Panda's Thumb 2010

His lewd dreams of the "gayest city in Europe" have produced in him a marked hallucinosis with visions of Neronic orgies, magnificently prodigal -- deliriums of chromatic disorder.

Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

This political view is put uncompromisingly in the apocalypse of John, where it was justified by the Neronic persecution, the imperial claim for worship, and the Domitianic reign of terror.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

Jesus; [103] they provided heathen opponents of Christianity with literary ammunition; unless the evidence is misleading, they instigated the Neronic outburst against the Christians; and as a rule, whenever bloody persecutions are afoot in later days, the Jews are either in the background or the foreground (the synagogues being dubbed by Tertullian “fontes persecutionum”).

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

After the Neronic persecution, which was probably [838] instigated by the Jews (see above, p. 58), though it neither extended beyond Rome nor involved further consequences, Trajan enacted that provincial governors were to use their own discretion, repressing any given case, [839] but declining to ferret Christians out.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

He sat for a space thinking how very Hellenic and Italian and Neronic, and all those things, he had been.

Tales of Space and Time 1906

He was squaring accounts with the woman he had been unable to bring before his Neronic tribunal in bodily form; and all the pent-up hatred in his heart for the musician Nothafft he was emptying into the music of another man.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

The world to him was a body full of wounds on which he was battening his Neronic lusts.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

_The Supper of Trimalchio_, by Petronius, reproduces with unsparing hand the gluttony and the blatant vice of the Neronic epoch.

English Satires Various 1885