A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890),.The horsemen who had received orders to bring him away alive, were now approaching the house.Īs soon as he heard them coming, he uttered with a trembling voice the following verse, Thou oughtest in such circumstances to have a good heart: Come, then: courage, man!" 2 One while, he begged of Sporus to begin to wail and lament another while, he entreated that one of them would, set him an example by killing himself and then again, he condemned his own want of resolution in these words: " I yet live to my shame and disgrace: this is not becoming for Nero: it is not becoming. Punishment that was and being told, that the practice was to strip the criminal naked, and scourge him to death, while his neck was fastened within a forked stake, he was so terrified that he took up two daggers which he had brought with him, and after feeling the points of both, put them up again, saying, " The fatal hour is not yet come."
To be got ready for immediate use about his corpse weeping at every thing that was done, and frequently saying, "What an artist is now about to perish!" Meanwhile, letters being brought in by a servant belonging to Phaon, he snatched them out of his hand, and there read, "That he had been declared an enemy by the senate, and that search was making for him, that he might be punished according to the ancient custom of the Romans." All who surrounded him now pressing him to save himself from the indignities which were 'ready to befall him, he ordered a pit to be sunk before his eyes, of the size of his body, and the bottom to be covered with pieces of marble put together, if any could be found about the house and water and wood, 1
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