ABSTRACT
Care is also demonstrated in Nero's early handling of judicial and financial matters. Nero suggested the abolition of indirect taxation across the Empire; this may have been one of the Emperor's characteristic out bursts of generosity, or he may have been attempting to reduce the opportunities for profiteering available to the tax-gatherers. He avoided the imposition of crippling burdens and, much to his mother's annoyance, cancelled a requirement introduced by Claudius that quaestors-designate that is, young men in their early twenties and on the threshold of a senatorial career should stage gladiatorial shows at their own expense. Some official records continued to include in Nero's titulature Son of the Deified Claudius. Nero's affair with the freed-woman Act, that both offended Agrippina and undermined her influence in the palace, as well as insulting Octavia, was connived at by Seneca and Burrus. Angry recriminations between Agrippina and Nero led to the former's expulsion from the imperial presence.
