Note 643 — Chapter XVIII · THE NINE FISH MOST HIGHLY PRIZED
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With this meeting compare that summoned post-haste by Nero in the Revolution (which led to his death), when to anxious and breathless senators he imparted the important news that he had just effected an improvement of the hydraulic organ, by which the notes were made to sound louder and sweeter. His ἐξεύρηκα conflicts somewhat with the account in Suetonius (Nero, 41). The Emperor evidently had a bent and a liking for mechanical invention, for according to C. M. Cobern, New Archæological Discoveries, etc., 1917, in one of his palaces were elevators which ran from the ground to the top floor, and a circular dining-room which revolved with the sun.