Nero
was a cognomen of the Claudia Gens, which is said to signify, in the Sabine tongue "fortis ac strenuus." (Sueton. Tib. Nero, 1; and the remarks of Gellius, 13.22.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.