. History of Nero . Desperate as such anundertaking might be, no other alternative,they said, was now left to him. But all wasof no avail. The conspirators could not arousehim to action. They were obliged to retireand leave him to his fate. He opened theveins in his arm, and bled to death while thesoldiers whom INero had sent were breakinginto his house to arrest him. Being thus deprived of their leader, theconspirators gave up all hope of efiecting therevolution, and thought only of the means ofscreening themselves from l^eros vengeance. In the mean time, Epicharis had so far re-covered durin
. History of Nero . Desperate as such anundertaking might be, no other alternative,they said, was now left to him. But all wasof no avail. The conspirators could not arousehim to action. They were obliged to retireand leave him to his fate. He opened theveins in his arm, and bled to death while thesoldiers whom INero had sent were breakinginto his house to arrest him. Being thus deprived of their leader, theconspirators gave up all hope of efiecting therevolution, and thought only of the means ofscreening themselves from l^eros vengeance. In the mean time, Epicharis had so far re-covered during the night, that on the follow-ing morning it was determined to bring heragain to the torture. She was utterly help-less,—her limbs having been broken by theexecution of the day before. The officers ac-cordingly put her into a sort of sedan chair, orcovered litter, in order that she might be car-ried by bearers to the place of torture. She was ] The Conspirators. 26\3 Epicharis at the torture. Her BaixXGiNG Epicharis to the Torture. borne in this ^Yay to the spot, but when theexecutioners opened the door of the chair totake her out, they heheid a shocking ^Yretched victim had escaped from theirpower. She was hanging by the neck, had contrived to make a noose in one endof the cincture with which she was girded, andfastening the other end to some part of thechair within, she had succeeded in bringingthe weight of her body upon the noose around 254 Kero. [ The conspirators tried before Nero. Flavins. her neck, and liad died without disturbing herbearers as thej walked along. In the mean time the various parties thatwere accused were seized in great numbers,and were brought in for trial before a sort ofcourt-martial which l^ero himself, with someof his principal officers, held for this purposein the gardens of the palace. The number ofthose accused was so large that the avenuesto the garden were blocked up with them, andwith the par
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