Admonitusque fortiter protendere cervicem, Utinam ait tu tam fortiter ferias! Et ille multum tremens, cum vix duobus ictibus caput amputavisset, saevitiam apud Neronem iactavit, sesquiplaga interfectum a se dicendo.
When admonished to hold his neck out firmly:'I only hope, he said, that you will strike as firmly! Shaking violently, the tribune severed the head with some difficulty at two blows, and boasted of his brutality to Nero by saying that he had killed with a stroke and a half.
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