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After Rome burned in a fire Nero became one of the infamous people in the city.In addition to killing his own mother he also killed his first wife and his second wife.Tacitus claims that his second wife was the reason why Nero killed his one & only mother.I don't know what his second wife did to kill his only mother but it must have been relation ship problems.

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