Immediately after Nero's first exhibition, a strange event happened here.

The theatre fell in on a sudden, but just after the audience had gone.

I was there, and did not see even one corpse taken from the ruins.

Many, even among the Greeks, see in this event the anger of the gods, because the dignity of Caesar was disgraced; he, on the contrary, finds in it favor of the gods, who have his song, and those who listen to it, under their evident protection.

Hence there are offerings in all the temples, and great thanks.