CL wrote:

>>>    Nero is a company 
>>
>> Don't be silly. Nero was a man in a toga who played the fiddle.
> 
> If you remember your "I Clavdivs" he was portrayed as a half dressed, 
> extremely gaye, sadistic, violent, not a very nice person at all ... who 
> played a fiddle.

Details, details. Speaking of which, though I have indeed forgotten many 
of them, surely Robert Graves would no more have had his man playing a 
fiddle than riding a bicycle?

But the point is, this Oliver chap was marching to quite a different 
drum. Let's establish the basics first...

John
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