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Date: 25 January 2007 11:33:11
I am often* asked "What does Nero look like?", well, Seutonius has the rather unflattering answer.
"Height: average.
Body: pustular and malodorous.
Hair: light blond.
Features: pretty, rather than handsome.
Eyes: blue and rather weak.
Neck: squat.
Belly: protuberant.
Legs: spindling."
From his chapter on Nero, in The Twelve Caesers, translated by Robert Graves.
*By "often" I in fact mean somewhere between rarely, and never.