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7 The loquacity of one man, again, prevented Rome from becoming free by the removal of Nero.This account differs in every way from the standard version in Tacitus, Annals, xv. 54 ff. For but one night remained, after which the tyrant was to die, and all preparations had been made; but the manPerhaps Subrius Flavus is meant (Annals, xv. 50). who was to kill him saw at the palace gates when on his way to the theatre a prisoner about to be led before Nero and lamenting his evil fortune. He approached the prisoner and whispered to him, Only pray, my good man, that to-day may pass by and to-morrow you will be thankful to me. So the prisoner grasped the intended meaning, and reflecting, I suppose, that He is a fool who leaves things close at hand To follow what is out of reach,Hesiod, Frag. 219 (Frag. 18, p. 278 ed. Evelyn-White in L.C.L.; Frag. 234 ed. Kinkel) from Eoae according to von Blumenthal, Hermes, xlix. 319. chose the surer rather than the more just way of safety. For he revealed to Nero what had been said to him by the man, who was immediately seized, and tortures and fire and the lash were applied to the conspirator as he denied, in the face of constraint, what he had revealed without constraint.