Nero - Political/Administrative Reform

Suetonius a.

‘he lowered, if he could not abolish, some of the heavier taxes’

Tacitus

‘their height restricted, and their frontage protected by colonnades. Nero undertook to erect these at his own expense’

Suetonius b.

‘he opened the Fire Relief Fund and insisted on contributions’

Suetonius c.

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

Suetonius d.

‘he believed that fortunes were made to be squandered, and whoever could account for every penny he spent seemed to him a stingy miser’