It was Nymphidius Sabinus, prefect of the court guard along with Tigellinus, as I have already stated,1 who, when Nero's case was altogether desperate, and it was clear that he was going to run away to Egypt, persuaded the soldiery, as though Nero were no longer there but had already fled,
1 Probably in the lost Life of Nero.
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