The example of the prince brought midnight riots into fashion. Private persons took their opportunity, with a band of loose companions, to annoy the public streets.' Every quarter was filled with tumult and disorder, insomuch that Rome, at night, resembled a city taken by storm. In one of these wild adventures, Julius Montanus, of senatorian rank, but not yet advanced to the magistracy, happened to encounter the emperor and his party.
Gero, halako asaltoen egilea Zesar zela jakin zenean, eta jaun eta andere ospetsuen aurkako irainak gehitzen ari zirenean, eta batzuek, lizentzia hori zilegi zenetik, Neronen izenean inpuneki, halako azioetara aldra propioekin jo zutenean, Erromako gaua hiri konkistatuetan bezala igarotzen zen.