Nero Quotes

“Nero was terrorised into killing himself, unaccompanied by any of his self-professed intimates. At the end, Nero had begged that his corpse should not be decapitated. This, and the privilege of an unmutilated burial, was conceded by Icelus, who came to view the corpse before returning hotfoot to Galba.224 Nero was given a funeral befitting a Roman magistrate, his body cremated and the ashes buried at great expense”
― John F. Drinkwater, Nero: Emperor and Court