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2004
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Journal Article
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Classics
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English
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103-420-620
(Last edited on
2005/10/20 02:16:09 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
Nero cancelled trips abroad twice in AD64 because he suffered two epileptic seizures far more serious than anything which he had suffered previously. The first struck him while at Beneventum and led him to believe that someone was trying to poison him. The result was that he set out to destroy his second-cousin and presumed successor, Decimus Iunius Silanus Torquatus. He seems also to have suffered a seizure when he learned of the news of Galba's revolt against him in AD68. The alleged 'poisoner' Locusta is better identified as a medicine-woman upon whom he relied for the treatment which he believed was keeping his epilepsy at bay.
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