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There was no Roman emperor who fiddled while Rome burned. This was a misinterpretation of the term "fiddling around". It was applied to Nero by a historian of later ages who used the term to connote that Nero, out of frustration, began doing trivial things just to keep occupied , while waiting for the reports of the fire to come in. Besides, the violin had not been invented in Nero's time.

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Nero. This answer was found from a packet by a girl named samantha

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That is a myth about the emperor Nero. It never happened.

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Nero was rumored to have fiddled while Rome burned.

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