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 "note": "Every quotation on the page, as typed in research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/build-data.mjs and checked against the kept copy named in each entry.",
 "quotes": {
  "tl-incertum": {
   "text": "Sequitur clades, forte an dolo principis incertum (nam utrumque auctores prodidere)",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.38",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-incertum": {
   "text": "A disaster followed, whether accidental or treacherously contrived by the emperor, is uncertain, as authors have given both accounts",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.38",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-antium": {
   "text": "Eo in tempore Nero Antii agens non ante in urbem regressus est quam domui eius, qua Palatium et Maecenatis hortos continuaverat, ignis propinquaret.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-antium": {
   "text": "Nero at this time was at Antium, and did not return to Rome until the fire approached his house, which he had built to connect the palace with the gardens of Mæcenas.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-relief": {
   "text": "sed solacium populo exturbato ac profugo campum Martis ac monumenta Agrippae, hortos quin etiam suos patefecit et subitaria aedificia extruxit quae multitudinem inopem acciperent",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-relief": {
   "text": "However, to relieve the people, driven out homeless as they were, he threw open to them the Campus Martius and the public buildings of Agrippa, and even his own gardens, and raised temporary structures to receive the destitute multitude.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-haurire": {
   "text": "neque tamen sisti potuit quin et Palatium et domus et cuncta circum haurirentur.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-haurire": {
   "text": "It could not, however, be stopped from devouring the palace, the house, and everything around it.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-rumor": {
   "text": "quae quamquam popularia in inritum cadebant, quia pervaserat rumor ipso tempore flagrantis urbis inisse eum domesticam scaenam et cecinisse Troianum excidium, praesentia mala vetustis cladibus adsimulantem.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-rumor": {
   "text": "These acts, though popular, produced no effect, since a rumour had gone forth everywhere that, at the very time when the city was in flames, the emperor appeared on a private stage and sang of the destruction of Troy, comparing present misfortunes with the calamities of antiquity.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-scaena": {
   "text": "pervaserat rumor ipso tempore flagrantis urbis inisse eum domesticam scaenam",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-scaena": {
   "text": "a rumour had gone forth everywhere that, at the very time when the city was in flames, the emperor appeared on a private stage",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-cecinisse": {
   "text": "cecinisse Troianum excidium",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-cecinisse": {
   "text": "sang of the destruction of Troy",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.39",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-sexto": {
   "text": "Sexto demum die apud imas Esquilias finis incendio factus",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.40",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-sexto": {
   "text": "At last, after five days, an end was put to the conflagration at the foot of the Esquiline hill",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.40",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-rursum": {
   "text": "rursum grassatus ignis patulis magis urbis locis",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.40",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-rursum": {
   "text": "But before people had laid aside their fears, the flames returned",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.40",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-regions": {
   "text": "quippe in regiones quattuordecim Roma dividitur, quarum quattuor integrae manebant, tres solo tenus deiectae: septem reliquis pauca tectorum vestigia supererant, lacera et semusta.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.40",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-regions": {
   "text": "Rome, indeed, is divided into fourteen districts, four of which remained uninjured, three were levelled to the ground, while in the other seven were left only a few shattered, half-burnt relics of houses.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.40",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-date": {
   "text": "fuere qui adnotarent xiiii Kal. Sextilis principium incendii huius ortum",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.41",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-date": {
   "text": "Some persons observed that the beginning of this conflagration was on the 19th of July",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.41",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-christiani": {
   "text": "ergo abolendo rumori Nero subdidit reos et quaesitissimis poenis adfecit quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellabat.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.44",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-christiani": {
   "text": "Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.44",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "tl-auriga": {
   "text": "habitu aurigae permixtus plebi vel curriculo insistens",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Tacitus, Annals",
   "where": "15.44",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-latin-fisher.txt"
  },
  "te-auriga": {
   "text": "he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Church and Brodribb",
   "where": "15.44",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tacitus-annals-15-38-44-english-church-brodribb.txt"
  },
  "sl-incendit": {
   "text": "incendit urbem tam palam",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Suetonius, Nero",
   "where": "38.1",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "se-incendit": {
   "text": "he set fire to the city so openly",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Rolfe",
   "where": "38.1",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "sl-turre": {
   "text": "Hoc incendium e turre Maecenatiana prospectans",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Suetonius, Nero",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "se-turre": {
   "text": "Viewing the conflagration from the tower of Maecenas",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Rolfe",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "sl-halosin": {
   "text": "Halosin Ilii in illo suo scaenico habitu decantavit.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Suetonius, Nero",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "se-halosin": {
   "text": "he sang the whole of the “Sack of Ilium,” in his regular stage costume.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Rolfe",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "sl-habitu": {
   "text": "in illo suo scaenico habitu",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Suetonius, Nero",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "se-habitu": {
   "text": "in his regular stage costume",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Rolfe",
   "where": "38.2",
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  },
  "sl-decantavit": {
   "text": "decantavit",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Suetonius, Nero",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "se-decantavit": {
   "text": "he sang the whole of the",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Rolfe",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "sl-sex": {
   "text": "Per sex dies septemque noctes ea clade saevitum est",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Suetonius, Nero",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "se-sex": {
   "text": "For six days and seven nights destruction raged",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Rolfe",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "sl-domus": {
   "text": "praeter immensum numerum insularum domus priscorum ducum arserunt",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Suetonius, Nero",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "se-domus": {
   "text": "besides an immense number of dwellings, the houses of leaders of old were burned",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Rolfe",
   "where": "38.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "sl-christiani": {
   "text": "afflicti suppliciis Christiani, genus hominum superstitionis novae ac maleficae",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Suetonius, Nero",
   "where": "16.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "se-christiani": {
   "text": "Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Rolfe",
   "where": "16.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-nero-16-38-rolfe-1914-latin-english.txt"
  },
  "dg-lathra": {
   "text": "λάθρᾳ γάρ τινας ὡς καὶ μεθύοντας ἢ καὶ κακουργοῦντάς τι ἄλλως διαπέμπων",
   "lang": "grc",
   "src": "Dio, epitome of book 62",
   "where": "62.16.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-62-16-18-cary-1925-greek-english.txt"
  },
  "de-lathra": {
   "text": "Accordingly he secretly sent out men who pretended to be drunk or engaged in other kinds of mischief, and caused them at first to set fire to one or two or even several buildings in different parts of the city",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Cary",
   "where": "62.16.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-62-16-18-cary-1925-greek-english.txt"
  },
  "dg-akron": {
   "text": "ὁ Νέρων ἔς τε τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ παλατίου",
   "lang": "grc",
   "src": "Dio, epitome of book 62",
   "where": "62.18.1",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-62-16-18-cary-1925-greek-english.txt"
  },
  "de-akron": {
   "text": "Nero ascended to the roof of the palace",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Cary",
   "where": "62.18.1",
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  },
  "dg-skeue": {
   "text": "τὴν σκευὴν τὴν κιθαρῳδικὴν λαβὼν",
   "lang": "grc",
   "src": "Dio, epitome of book 62",
   "where": "62.18.1",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-62-16-18-cary-1925-greek-english.txt"
  },
  "de-skeue": {
   "text": "assuming the lyre-player’s garb",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Cary",
   "where": "62.18.1",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-62-16-18-cary-1925-greek-english.txt"
  },
  "dg-esen": {
   "text": "ᾖσεν ἅλωσιν, ὡς μὲν αὐτὸς ἔλεγεν, Ἰλίου, ὡς δὲ ἑωρᾶτο, Ῥώμης.",
   "lang": "grc",
   "src": "Dio, epitome of book 62",
   "where": "62.18.1",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-62-16-18-cary-1925-greek-english.txt"
  },
  "de-esen": {
   "text": "he sang the “Capture of Troy,” as he styled the song himself, though to the eyes of the spectators it was the Capture of Rome.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Cary",
   "where": "62.18.1",
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  },
  "dg-pleious": {
   "text": "ἐπὶ πλείους καὶ ἡμέρας καὶ νύκτας",
   "lang": "grc",
   "src": "Dio, epitome of book 62",
   "where": "62.17.1",
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  },
  "de-pleious": {
   "text": "it lasted for several days and nights alike",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Cary",
   "where": "62.17.1",
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  },
  "dg-duo": {
   "text": "τῆς τε λοιπῆς πόλεως τὰ δύο που μέρη ἐκαύθη",
   "lang": "grc",
   "src": "Dio, epitome of book 62",
   "where": "62.18.2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-62-16-18-cary-1925-greek-english.txt"
  },
  "de-duo": {
   "text": "nearly two-thirds of the remainder of the city were burned",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Cary",
   "where": "62.18.2",
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  },
  "cn-note": {
   "text": "τοῦ παλατίου R. Steph., τὰ παλάτια VC.",
   "lang": "grc",
   "src": "Cary, note 4 to 62.18.1",
   "where": "p. 115 n. 4",
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  },
  "cn-xiph": {
   "text": "Xiph. 166, 17–169, 10 R. St.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Cary, end of 62.18",
   "where": "p. 116",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-62-16-18-cary-1925-greek-english.txt"
  },
  "fu-internal": {
   "text": "The date of completion and publication of his various works rests on internal evidence.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, Annals vol. I (1896)",
   "where": "p. 5",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "fu-date": {
   "text": "This last work must have been completed when the conquests of Trajan had reached their highest point, in 868 or 869, A.D. 115 or 116",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, Annals vol. I (1896)",
   "where": "p. 5",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "fu-ms": {
   "text": "a manuscript in Lombard characters, generally assigned to the latter half of the eleventh century",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, Annals vol. II (1907)",
   "where": "p. 1",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "fu-ms-all": {
   "text": "contains all that we have of these later Books of the Annals",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, Annals vol. II (1907)",
   "where": "p. 2",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "fu-ms-others": {
   "text": "Many other manuscripts of this portion of the works of Tacitus exist, but none of them can claim any earlier date than the middle of the 15th century.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, Annals vol. II (1907)",
   "where": "pp. 2-3",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "fu-ms-walther": {
   "text": "has been adopted by some editors, notably by Walther",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, Annals vol. II (1907)",
   "where": "pp. 3-4",
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  "fu-ms-derived": {
   "text": "Recent editors, however, have generally held that all the other MSS. are ultimately derived from the Medicean",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, Annals vol. II (1907)",
   "where": "p. 4",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "fu-doubt": {
   "text": "We owe it to Tacitus that any doubt is left on the subject.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, note on 15.38",
   "where": "p. 363",
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  "fu-later": {
   "text": "a similar view is taken by the author of the ‘Octavia’ (831–833), and is followed by Orosius (7, 7); while Sulp. Severus (see on c. 40, 3) more closely follows Tacitus",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, note on 15.38",
   "where": "p. 363",
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  "fu-incline": {
   "text": "at least inclines to charge Nero with the second outbreak (c. 40, 3)",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, note on 15.38",
   "where": "p. 363",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
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  "fu-affirm": {
   "text": "Suet. (Ner. 38) and Dio (62. 18, 1), who affirm as a fact what Tacitus here gives as a rumour",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, note on 15.39",
   "where": "p. 366",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
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  "fu-extant": {
   "text": "a votive inscription, not now extant",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, note on 15.40",
   "where": "p. 366",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "fu-nipp": {
   "text": "by supposing that the second outbreak, here mentioned by Tacitus, lasted three days",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, note on 15.40",
   "where": "p. 366",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "fu-pliny": {
   "text": "Pliny also (N. H. 17. 1, 1, 5) speaks of ‘Neronis principis incendia quibus cremavit urbem’",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Furneaux, note on 15.38",
   "where": "p. 363",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/furneaux-1896-1907-annals-dating-ms-notes.txt"
  },
  "ro-120": {
   "text": "published in 120",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Rolfe, Suetonius vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xii",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-rolfe-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "ro-memm": {
   "text": "The codex Memmianus of the ninth century. Our oldest and best manuscript",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Rolfe, Suetonius vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xxii",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/suetonius-rolfe-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "ca-200": {
   "text": "The period of these labours may be roughly estimated as the years 200–222.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Cary, Dio vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xi",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-cary-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "ca-para": {
   "text": "while they often repeat entire sentences of Dio verbatim, or nearly so (as may readily be seen by comparing extant portions of the histories with Zonaras or Xiphilinus), must, nevertheless, be regarded as essentially paraphrases",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Cary, Dio vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xviii",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-cary-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "ca-chief": {
   "text": "For Books LXI–LXXX our chief authority is Xiphilinus",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Cary, Dio vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xxii",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-cary-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "ca-xiph": {
   "text": "Xiphilinus, a monk of Constantinople, who made an abridgment of Books XXXVI–LXXX at the request of the emperor Michael VII. Ducas (1071–78)",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Cary, Dio vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xxii",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-cary-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "ca-careless": {
   "text": "his task was very carelessly performed",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Cary, Dio vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xxiii",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-cary-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "ca-vc": {
   "text": "all the rest are derived from one or the other of two fifteenth century Mss., Vaticanus 145 and Coislinianus 320",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Cary, Dio vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xxiii",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-cary-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "ca-steph": {
   "text": "1551 R. Stephanus. Editio princeps of Xiphilinus.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Cary, Dio vol. I (1914)",
   "where": "p. xxvii",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/dio-cary-1914-vol1-introduction.txt"
  },
  "il-novem": {
   "text": "quando urbs per novem dies arsit Neronianis temporibus",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "ILS 4914 (Dessau 1902)",
   "where": "p. 249",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/ils-4914-dessau-1902.txt"
  },
  "il-semel": {
   "text": "semel descripta",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Dessau, note to ILS 4914",
   "where": "p. 249",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/ils-4914-dessau-1902.txt"
  },
  "il-similes": {
   "text": "Similes lapides etiam in aliis urbis partibus fuisse videntur",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Dessau, note to ILS 4914",
   "where": "p. 249",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/ils-4914-dessau-1902.txt"
  },
  "il-sexto": {
   "text": "Scilicet cum ‘sexto die finis incendio factus’ esset, mox denuo erupit",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Dessau, note 4 to ILS 4914",
   "where": "p. 249",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/ils-4914-dessau-1902.txt"
  },
  "pl-jan": {
   "text": "ad Neronis principis incendia quibus cremavit urbem, annis CLXXX postea cultu virides iuvenesque, ni princeps ille accelerasset etiam arborum mortem.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Pliny, NH 17.5, ed. Jan",
   "where": "p. 46",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/pliny-nh-17-5-three-editions.txt"
  },
  "pl-may": {
   "text": "ad Neronis principis incendia cultu virides iuvenesque, ni princeps ille adcelerasset etiam arborum mortem.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Pliny, NH 17.5, ed. Mayhoff",
   "where": "p. 66",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/pliny-nh-17-5-three-editions.txt"
  },
  "pl-may-app": {
   "text": "26 incendia D. incendia quibus cremauit urbem annis (clxxx add. v) postea ll. v.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Mayhoff, note to line 26",
   "where": "p. 66",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/pliny-nh-17-5-three-editions.txt"
  },
  "pl-rack": {
   "text": "[quibus cremavit urbem annis postea]",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Pliny, NH 17.5, ed. Rackham",
   "where": "p. 4",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/pliny-nh-17-5-three-editions.txt"
  },
  "pl-rack-note": {
   "text": "Secl. Detlefsen.",
   "lang": "la",
   "src": "Rackham, note 4",
   "where": "p. 4",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/pliny-nh-17-5-three-editions.txt"
  },
  "pl-br": {
   "text": "they were in existence down to the period when the Emperor Nero set fire to the City, one hundred and eighty years after the time of Crassus",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "tr. Bostock and Riley",
   "where": "NH 17.1",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/pliny-nh-17-5-three-editions.txt"
  },
  "pd-death": {
   "text": "an account of my uncle's death",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Pliny the Younger, letter to Tacitus, tr. Melmoth",
   "where": "letter LXV",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/pliny-elder-death-and-dedication.txt"
  },
  "pd-vesuvius": {
   "text": "it was found afterwards to come from Mount Vesuvius",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Pliny the Younger, letter to Tacitus, tr. Melmoth",
   "where": "letter LXV",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/pliny-elder-death-and-dedication.txt"
  },
  "h6-lute": {
   "text": "Plantagenet, I will; and, like thee, Nero,\nPlay on the lute, beholding the towns burn.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Henry VI, Part 1",
   "where": "1.4",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/henry-vi-part-1-act1-sc4-gutenberg.txt"
  },
  "ne-mynstrill": {
   "text": "In Mynstrills habit stand before the Iudges",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "The Tragedy of Nero (1624)",
   "where": "3.3",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tragedy-of-nero-1624-bullen-1882.txt"
  },
  "ne-fidler": {
   "text": "I have a Fidler heard him, let me not\nSee him a Player",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "The Tragedy of Nero (1624)",
   "where": "3.3",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tragedy-of-nero-1624-bullen-1882.txt"
  },
  "bu-id": {
   "text": "4to. I'd.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Bullen, note 2",
   "where": "p. 51",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tragedy-of-nero-1624-bullen-1882.txt"
  },
  "ne-timbrel": {
   "text": "Soft Musique. Enter Nero above alone with a Timbrell.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "The Tragedy of Nero (1624)",
   "where": "3.4",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tragedy-of-nero-1624-bullen-1882.txt"
  },
  "ne-troy": {
   "text": "I, now my Troy lookes beautious in her flames;",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "The Tragedy of Nero (1624)",
   "where": "3.4",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/tragedy-of-nero-1624-bullen-1882.txt"
  },
  "gr-unprinted": {
   "text": "The Original MSS. in the British Museum: HITHERTO UNPRINTED.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Grosart, title page (1878)",
   "where": "vol. I",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/grosart-1878-george-daniel-title-page.txt"
  },
  "db-date": {
   "text": "The 17th of November, 1680.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "A Collection of Debates (1725)",
   "where": "p. [73]",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/debates-1680-silas-titus-printed-1725.txt"
  },
  "ti-fiddle": {
   "text": "we may be reflected on, as Nero was, for being playing on his Fiddle when Rome was on Fire.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Silas Titus, in A Collection of Debates (1725)",
   "where": "p. [80]",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/debates-1680-silas-titus-printed-1725.txt"
  },
  "ba-ancient": {
   "text": "The image of Nero actually playing an instrument during the Great Fire is not, in fact, found in ancient sources",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Barrett 2021, abstract",
   "where": "abstract",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/barrett-2021-greece-and-rome-landing-page.txt"
  },
  "ba-harp": {
   "text": "where Nero is said to play a harp during the conflagration",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Barrett 2021, abstract",
   "where": "abstract",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/barrett-2021-greece-and-rome-landing-page.txt"
  },
  "ba-daniel": {
   "text": "In 1649 the royalist poet George Daniel applied the term ‘fiddle’",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Barrett 2021, abstract",
   "where": "abstract",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/barrett-2021-greece-and-rome-landing-page.txt"
  },
  "ba-daniel-cite": {
   "text": "Trinarchodia. The Several Reigns of Richard II, of Henry IV and of Henry V (London, 1649)",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Barrett 2021, note 22",
   "where": "n. 22",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/barrett-2021-greece-and-rome-landing-page.txt"
  },
  "ba-titus": {
   "text": "was apparently coined in a 1680 English parliamentary speech by Silius Titus",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Barrett 2021, abstract",
   "where": "abstract",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/barrett-2021-greece-and-rome-landing-page.txt"
  },
  "ba-cricketers": {
   "text": "That Nero fiddled while Rome burned.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Barrett 2021, note 28",
   "where": "n. 28",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/barrett-2021-greece-and-rome-landing-page.txt"
  },
  "ga-indep": {
   "text": "Cassius Dio can’t be regarded as independent of the earlier two.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Gainsford 2017",
   "where": "blog",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/gainsford-2017-kiwi-hellenist.txt"
  },
  "ga-gear": {
   "text": "put on his gear for kithara performances",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Gainsford 2017",
   "where": "blog",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/gainsford-2017-kiwi-hellenist.txt"
  },
  "ga-kithara": {
   "text": "We have to substitute an ancient concert kithara for the modern violin",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Gainsford 2017",
   "where": "blog",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/gainsford-2017-kiwi-hellenist.txt"
  },
  "ga-state": {
   "text": "Nor does he ‘state clearly’ that it was unconfirmed.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Gainsford 2017",
   "where": "blog",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/gainsford-2017-kiwi-hellenist.txt"
  },
  "ga-h6": {
   "text": "Henry VI part 1 (ca. 1591-1595)",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Gainsford 2017",
   "where": "blog",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/gainsford-2017-kiwi-hellenist.txt"
  },
  "ga-exact": {
   "text": "this appears to be the earliest occurrence of the exact phrasing, ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burned’",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Gainsford 2017",
   "where": "blog",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/gainsford-2017-kiwi-hellenist.txt"
  },
  "po-whilst": {
   "text": "Nero fiddled whilst Rome was burning.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Tréguer, word histories",
   "where": "blog",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/popular-accounts-2012-2026.txt"
  },
  "hi-six": {
   "text": "a great fire ravaged Rome for six days",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "History.com",
   "where": "article",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/popular-accounts-2012-2026.txt"
  },
  "hi-rome": {
   "text": "The Roman historian Tacitus wrote that Nero was rumored to have sung about the destruction of Rome while watching the city burn",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "History.com",
   "where": "article",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/popular-accounts-2012-2026.txt"
  },
  "hi-eye": {
   "text": "however, he stated clearly that this was unconfirmed by eyewitness accounts",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "History.com",
   "where": "article",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/popular-accounts-2012-2026.txt"
  },
  "hi-imm": {
   "text": "Though he immediately returned and began relief measures",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "History.com",
   "where": "article",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/popular-accounts-2012-2026.txt"
  },
  "hi-christ": {
   "text": "Nero himself blamed the Christians (then an obscure religious sect) for the fire",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "History.com",
   "where": "article",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/popular-accounts-2012-2026.txt"
  },
  "ls-raced": {
   "text": "Nero raced back to Rome.",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "Live Science",
   "where": "article",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/popular-accounts-2012-2026.txt"
  },
  "pf-instr": {
   "text": "he watched it from a tower while playing an instrument and singing about the destruction of Troy",
   "lang": "en",
   "src": "The Phrase Finder",
   "where": "entry",
   "kept": "research/the-rumour-that-grew-a-roof/sources/popular-accounts-2012-2026.txt"
  }
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