. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. with scraps of marble. IThe water and wood for his obsequies were prepared, while heuttered the famous words qualis artifex pereo! either :meaning What an artist the world is losing! or (more iprobably) What an artistic death! A dispatch came to iannounce that he had been declared a public enemy by the |senate, and was to be punished according to the ancient custom iof the Romans. He asked what sort of death that meant, andwas informed that the criminal was generally stripped nakedand scourged to death with his head in
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. with scraps of marble. IThe water and wood for his obsequies were prepared, while heuttered the famous words qualis artifex pereo! either :meaning What an artist the world is losing! or (more iprobably) What an artistic death! A dispatch came to iannounce that he had been declared a public enemy by the |senate, and was to be punished according to the ancient custom iof the Romans. He asked what sort of death that meant, andwas informed that the criminal was generally stripped nakedand scourged to death with his head in a pillory. Then he itook up daggers and tried the points, but still he dared not die. !He begged one of his attendants to give him the example. At Ilast he heard the horsemen coming, quoted a line of the Iliadvery appropriately, and drove, with the help of his secretary, adagger into his throat. Now, even of this, three-quarters is pure rhetoric. Forexample, it was impossible that Nero should have heard thesoldiers in the Esquiline Camp from the road which he took to258. wz H z < H 2O(J <
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