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... super Nerone responderunt Chaldaei fore ut imperaret matremque occideret;...

i.e., qui dixit fore ut....; as to the clause, cf. the following excerpt from Benet's Latin grammar: 297. Substantive Clauses of Result (introduced by ut, ut nōn) are a development of pure Result clauses, and occur with the following classes of words:— 1. As object clauses after verbs of doing, accomplishing (especially faciō, efficiō, cōnficiō). Thus:— gravitās morbī facit ut medicīnā egeāmus, the severity of disease makes us need medicine. 2. As the subject of several impersonal verbs, particularly fit, efficitur, accidit, ēvenit, contingit, accēdit, fierī potest, fore, sequitur, relinquitur. Thus:— ex quō efficitur, ut voluptās nōn sit summum bonum, from which it follows that pleasure is not the greatest good;ita fit, ut nēmō esse possit beātus, thus it happens that no one can be happy; accēdēbat ut nāvēs deessent, another thing was the lack of ships (lit. it was added that ships were lacking). 3. As predicate or appositive after expressions like jūs est, mōs est, cōnsuētūdō est; also after neuter pronouns, hōc, illud, etc. Thus:—est mōs hominum ut nōlint eundem plūribus rēbus excellere, it is the way of men not to wish the same person to excel in many things.