This were Nero’s last words

Nero's strategy following the Great Fire was to raise taxes to pay for the reconstruction of Rome, including his enormous Golden House, which at the time would have taken up 1/3 of the city. This didn't work out too well, and a number of plots to kill his life were launched. One significant one, including future Emperor Galba—the first of the four emperors to rule after Nero—grew beyond Nero's control. Together with 4 of his devoted freedmen (including his "wife," Sporus), he departed Rome and went to a villa 6.4 kilometers (miles) outside of the city. When his whereabouts were discovered, a courier arrived bearing news that Nero had been found guilty of murder and would be put to death by being beaten. He would be taken to the Roman Forum by armed men, where a public execution would take place.

Although Nero was obviously unaware of it at the time, this turned out to be inaccurate since the Senate was exceedingly hesitant to publicly execute the "deified Nero of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty." The words "Qualis Artifex pereo" ("What an artist dies in me"), which highlighted that Nero considered himself as an incredible artist, were uttered while he made preparations for suicide while pacing up and down. He asked one of his buddies to commit suicide first since he wasn't quite ready and wanted to see what would happen. He was eventually propelled to jump when the horseman came closer. He was unable to do the assignment himself, so he ordered Epaphroditus, his personal secretary, to do it.