Nero dedicating his beard at the capitoline temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, imaginative and silly reconstruction of a silly historical event.

“At the gymnastic contest [in his first "Neronia” festival], which he gave in the Saepta [Julia], he shaved his first beard to the accompaniment of a splendid sacrifice of bullocks, put it in a golden box adorned with pearls of great price, and dedicated it in the Capitol.“ -Suetonius

(http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Nero*.html)

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