Makes sense. But it only works if 'NERO CAESAR' was written in Hebrew (or Aramaic, which was the language of everyday life and used the same alphabet) at the time. Since it was pronounced in Latin more like ... mmm...
--IPA: [nerokɑɪsɑr]
--English approximation: nay-roe k-eye-sahr
... I'd expect the Hebrew to have a yod in it for the offglide in "Cae".
-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
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Date: 2006-06-07 03:28 am (UTC)--IPA: [nerokɑɪsɑr]
--English approximation: nay-roe k-eye-sahr
... I'd expect the Hebrew to have a yod in it for the offglide in "Cae".
-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody