Deed — 3 authors face each other below

fall of Nero

kind: fall · 68 CE — the editor’s frame · 5 mentions across 5 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

From Vindex's rising to the suicide in Phaon's villa and Galba's proclamation.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Suetonius dies with Nero — 'What an artist the world is losing!' — hour by hour in the villa; Plutarch watches from Galba's Spain, where the freedman Icelus arrives having seen the body himself; Tacitus needs one retrospective sentence to draw the constitutional moral: 'that secret of the empire, that emperors could be made elsewhere than at Rome.' Deathbed, courier, and epigram — three distances from one event.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 68 CE on the editor’s table of years .

· 68 CE — date secure ·

June 68 CE; Suetonius counts 'nearly fourteen years' of the reign, and Plutarch's Galba carries the courier chronology of the last weeks.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · one account

4–7 the principal narrative The fall as received in Spain: Vindex's letters, the proclamation, Icelus' eyewitness report of the corpse.

Junius Vindex, a general in Gaul, revolted against Nero. Plut. Galba 4

had not believed the report, but had gone and seen the dead body where it lay Plut. Galba 7

Galba · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Suetonius · one account

40–49 the principal narrative The collapse and the suicide, at document-level detail.

the Gauls took the first step under the lead of Julius Vindex Suet. Nero 40

he wept and said again and again: “ What an artist the world is losing !” Suet. Nero 49

Nero · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Tacitus · one account

1.4–1.5 looking back The Histories' cold opening over the fresh grave.

for now had been divulged that secret of the empire, that emperors could be made elsewhere than at Rome. Tac. Hist. 1.4

The Histories · Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1864

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Galba — 4 episodes shared Nero — 4 episodes shared Titus — 2 episodes shared Emperor — a candidate entry Icelus — 1 episode shared Sporus — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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