On Jun 30, 12:33 pm, DTC <no_spam@move_along_folks.foob> wrote:
> m II wrote:
> > There's the troubling rumour that Zero fiddled while Rome burned. It's
> > simply not rue.
>
> Correct...the fiddle wasn't invented for another thousand years.
>
> [quote Wiki]
>
> It was said by Suetonius and Cassius Dio that Nero sang the "Sack of Ilium"
> in stage costume while the city burned. However, Tacitus' account has Nero
> in Antium at the time of the fire. Tacitus said that Nero playing his lyre
> and singing while the city burned was only rumor. Popular legend remembers
> Nero fiddling-- that is, playing the fiddle-- while Rome burned, but this
> is an anachronism as the instrument had not yet been invented, and would
> not be for over 1,000 years.