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| | Suetonius: Nero's suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Nero gasped: 'Hark to the sound I hear! |
 | | It is hooves of galloping horses.' Then,with the help of his scribe, Epaphroditos, he stabbed himself in the throat and was already half dead when a cavalry officer entered, pretending to have rushed to his rescue, and staunched the wound with his cloak. |
 | | But, ah, what fidelity!' He died, with his eyes glazed and bulging from their sockets, a sight which horrified everybody present. |
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