குடிசைகள் எரிந்து கொண்டிருந்தபொழுது நீரோ மன்னன் பிடில் வாசித்தானாம் அன்று:
தேசமே எரிந்து கொண்டிருக்கும் பொழுது மக்கள் போராளி கிற்றார் வாசித்தானம் இன்று!
இந்த மானங்கெட்ட தமிழன் நன்றிகெட்டு வாழுகின்ற இந்தப் பூமியில் வாழ்வதைவிட ..
உயிருள்ளவரை தேசத்திற்காக போராடி மடிவதே மேல் .........
தமிழரின் தாகம் தமிழீழத்தாயகம்
Note about KING NERO:
According to Tacitus, who was nine years old at the time of the fire,[6] it spread quickly and burnt for five days.[2] It destroyed four of fourteen Roman districts and severely damaged seven.[2] The only other historian who lived through the period and mentioned the fire is Pliny the Elder who wrote about it in passing.[7] Other historians who lived through the period (including Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch and Epictetus) make no mention of it.[8] The only other account on the size of fire is an
interpolation in a forged Christian letter from Seneca to Paul: "A hundred and thirty-two houses and four blocks have been burnt in six days; the seventh brought a pause".[9] This account implies less than a tenth of the city was burnt. Rome contained about 1,700 private houses and 47,000 apartment blocks.
It was said by Cassius Dio that Nero sang the "Sack of Ilium" in stage costume while the city burned.[10] However, Tacitus' account has Nero in Antium at the time of the fire.[11] Tacitus said that Nero playing his lyre and singing while the city burned !was only a rumor.[11] Popular legend remembers Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned, but this is an anachronism as the instrument was invented a thousand years later.[12]
According to Tacitus, upon hearing news of the fire, Nero rushed back to Rome to organize a relief effort, which he paid for from his own funds.[11] After the fire, Nero opened his palaces to provide shelter for the homeless, and arranged for food supplies to be delivered in order to prevent starvation among the survivors.[11] In the wake of the fire, he made a new urban development plan. Houses after the fire were spaced out, built in brick, and faced by porticos on wide roads.[13] Nero also built a new palace complex known as the Domus Aurea in an area cleared by the fire.[14] The size of this complex is debated (from 100 to 300 acres).[15][16][17] To find the necessary funds for the reconstruction, tributes were imposed on the provinces of the empire.[18] source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Rome
"The friend becomes a traitor by breaking,
however unwillingly or sadly, out of our
own zone: a hard judgment is passed
on him, for all the pleas of the heart."
Source: Elizabeth Bowen
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