Nero - Relationship with Senate

Suetonius a.

‘he promised to model his rule on the principles laid down by Augustus’

Suetonius b.

‘settle annual salaries on distinguished but impoverished senators'

Tacitus

‘senators and knights, officers, even women, competed to join’

Suetonius c.

‘when Helius, his freedman, reminded him that he was urgently needed at Rome, he would not be distracted by official business’

Dio Cassius

‘the senate removed his bodyguard…declared him a public enemy and appointed Galba emperor in his place’