Historical clue formulations

• Fiddler-emperor, legend has it — 2026-09-09
• Infamous Roman ruler — 2026-08-04
• Roman emperor who competed in the Olympics (and "won" every event he was in) — 2026-08-03
• Focus of the historians Tacitus and Suetonius — 2025-11-07
• Infamous Roman ruler — 2025-07-29
• Emperor with a statue outside the Colosseum — 2025-03-02
• Emperor named an enemy of the state in A.D. 68 — 2025-02-12
• Emperor from 54 to 68 — 2024-12-27
• Emperor Claudius's successor — 2024-09-09
• Name hidden in "hard-line Roman Emperor" — 2024-07-19
• Emperor before the Year of the Four Emperors — 2024-03-03
• Historic husband of Claudia Octavia — 2024-02-24
• Last Julio-Claudian emperor — 2024-01-17
• Infamous Roman — 2024-01-02
• Emperor beginning in A.D. 54 — 2023-10-31
• Final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty — 2023-10-24
• He actually died about 1,500 years before the fiddle was invented — 2023-09-21
• Detective Wolfe — 2023-07-25
• His death sparked a civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors — 2023-07-09
• Roman emperor famed for his debauchery — 2023-06-06
• ___ Redivivus (first-century myth about an emperor's reappearance) — 2023-05-07
• Infamous emperor — 2023-04-25
• Emperor who purportedly fiddled while Rome burned — 2023-04-10
• Black: It. — 2023-04-06
• Emperor during the Great Fire of Rome — 2022-07-11
• Emperor whose mother was Agrippina the Younger — 2022-05-24
• Ruler during the Great Fire of Rome — 2022-01-12
• Emperor during the Great Fire of Rome — 2021-12-27
• Reviled Roman emperor — 2021-11-23
• Roman emperor who succeeded his adoptive father — 2021-08-30
• Roman emperor who said before dying "What an artist the world is losing in me!" — 2021-08-02
• Emperor who ruled for more than 13 years, dying at age 30 — 2020-12-27
• ___ Wolfe, armchair detective — 2020-10-07
• Emperor just before the Year of the Four Emperors — 2020-08-24
• Infamous emperor — 2020-08-23
• Historic megalomaniac — 2020-07-11
• Detective Wolfe — 2020-03-18
• "Fiddling" emperor — 2020-03-17
• "I, Claudius" role — 2020-02-27
• Leader who succeeded his adoptive father — 2019-12-05
• Historical role for Peter Lorre in "The Story of Mankind" — 2019-10-20
• Emperor who, in actuality, played the lyre, not the violin — 2019-09-15
• Model for a bust at the Musei Capitolini — 2019-06-23
• Builder of the Domus Aurea — 2019-06-12
• Master detective Wolfe — 2019-05-07
• Old Roman autocrat — 2019-05-05
• Ancient Rome's Circus of ___ — 2019-04-13
• Emperor who rebuilt Rome after it burned — 2019-03-19
• Last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty — 2019-02-04
• Leader whose death sparked the Year of the Four Emperors — 2018-10-16