§2.1ὁμοῦ δὲ Ῥωμαίους πάντας οὐδὲν εὔφρανεν οὕτως οὐδὲ ᾠκειώσατο πρὸς αὐτὸν ὡς τὰ περὶ Τιγελλῖνον.
But, at the same time, nothing delighted all Romans so much, nor won them over to him, as the measures concerning Tigellinus.
ἐλελήθει μὲν γὰρ ἤδη κολαζόμενος αὐτῷ τῷ φόβῳ τῆς κολάσεως ἣν ὡς χρέος ἀπῄτει δημόσιον ἡ πόλις, §2.2καὶ νοσήμασιν ἀνηκέστοις σώματος, αὐτάς τε τὰς ἀνοσίους καὶ ἀρρήτους ἐν γυναιξὶ πόρναις καὶ ἀκαθάρτοις ἐγκυλινδήσεις, αἷς ἔτι προσέσπαιρε δυσθανατοῦντος αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀκόλαστον ἐπιδραττόμενον, ἐσχάτην τιμωρίαν ἐποιοῦντο καὶ πολλῶν ἀντάξια θανάτων οἱ σωφρονοῦντες.
For he had already been unconsciously punished by the very fear of the punishment which the state was demanding as a public debt, and by incurable diseases of the body; and those of a sound mind regarded as the ultimate punishment, and worth many deaths, those very unholy and unspeakable wallowings among harlots and unclean women, in which his lust, still struggling, clung to him even as he lay dying.
ἠνία δὲ τοὺς πολλοὺς ὅμως τόν ἥλιον ὁρῶν μετὰ τοσούτους καὶ τοιούτους διʼ αὐτὸν οὐχ ὁρῶντας.
Yet it vexed the multitude that he should still look upon the sun, after so many and such men had, because of him, ceased to look upon it.
§2.3ἔπεμψεν οὖν ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ὁ Ὄθων εἰς τοὺς περὶ Σινόεσσαν ἀγρούς· ἐκεῖ γὰρ διῃτᾶτο, πλοίων παρορμούντων, ὡς φευξόμενος ἀπωτέρω.
Otho therefore sent to fetch him, in the lands around Sinuessa; for he was living there, with ships lying at anchor, intending to flee further away.
καὶ τόν γε πεμφθέντα χρυσίῳ πολλῷ πείθειν ἐπεχείρησε παρεῖναι· μὴ πεισθέντι δὲ δῶρα μὲν ἔδωκεν οὐδὲν ἧττον, ἐδεήθη δὲ ὑπομεῖναι ἕως ἂν ἀποξύρηται τό γένειον· καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐλαιμοτόμησεν.
And he tried to persuade the messenger who had been sent, by offering much gold, to let him escape; but when the messenger would not be persuaded, he gave him the gifts none the less, and begged him to wait until he should shave his beard; then, taking his own life, he cut his own throat.