When Nero came to the Holy Land, he tried his fortune by belemnomancy thus: — He shot an arrow eastward, and it fell upon Jerusalem; he discharged his shafts towards the four points of the compass, and every time they fell upon Jerusalem. After this he met a Jewish boy, and said unto him, " Repeat to me the text thou hast learned to-day. }) The boy repeated, " I will lay my vengeance upon Edom (". <?., Rome) by the hand of my people Israel (Ezek. xxv. 14). Then said Nero, " The Holy One — blessed be He! — has determined to destroy His Temple and then avenge Himself on the agent by whom its ruin is wrought. Thereupon Nero fled and became a Jewish proselyte, and Rabbi Meir is of his race.