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These were eagerly run after and read, so long as it was dangerous to possess them : the prohibition removed, they were forgotten.^ But while the state of public affairs grew worse cj every day, the means of alleviation diminished. For now Burrus died ; whether from disease or poison was uncertain. The fact that there was a swelling 2 in his throat, and that his breathing was difficult at the last, pointed to illness ; but most persons 3 affirmed that Nero had ordered his throat to be smeared w...ith a poisonous drug by way of remedy; that Burrus detected the crime ; and that when Nero came to see him, he turned his face away, and made no other answer to his inquiries but this : — Wiih me,'^ all is well. His death created a profound and abiding regret 4 among the citizens ; they remembered his merits, and contrasted them with the blameless inertia of one, and the notorious evil living of the other, of his two successors. For Nero now put the Praetorians under 5 ' It had apparently become a custom, which Augustus refused to prohibit (Suet.
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