Hist. 1.74.1Pār inde exultātiō disparibus causīs cōnsecūta impetrātō Tigellīnī exitiō.Then followed an equal rejoicing, for unequal reasons, when the death of Tigellinus was obtained. Hist. 1.74.1Ofonius Tigellīnus obscūrīs parentibus, foedā pueritiā, impudīcā senectā, praefectūram vigilum et praetōriī et alia praemia virtūtum, quia vēlōcius erat, vitiīs adeptus, crūdēlitātem mox, deinde avāritiam, virīlia scelera, exercuit, corruptō ad omne facinus Nerōne, quaedam ignārō ausus, ac postrēmō eiusdem dēsertor ac prōditor: unde nōn alium pertinācius ad poenam flāgitāvērunt, dīversō adfectū, quibus odium Nerōnis īnerat et quibus dēsīderium.Ofonius Tigellinus, of obscure parents, with a foul boyhood and a shameless old age, had gained the prefecture of the watch and of the praetorian guard and other rewards of virtue through his vices, because that was quicker; he practised cruelty next, and then greed, crimes of a grown man, having corrupted Nero to every kind of wickedness and dared some things without his knowledge, and finally becoming his deserter and betrayer: hence there was no one whose punishment they demanded more insistently, with different feelings, both those who hated Nero and those who missed him.
Hist. 1.74.1Apud Galbam Titī Vīniī potentiā dēfēnsus, praetexentis servātam ab eō fīliam.Under Galba he had been protected by the influence of Titus Vinius, who pleaded that his daughter had been saved by him. Hist. 1.74.1Haud dubiē servāverat, nōn clēmentiā, quippe tot interfectīs, sed effugium in futūrum, quia pessimus quisque diffīdentiā praesentium mūtātiōnem pavēns adversus pūblicum odium prīvātam grātiam praeparat: unde nūlla innocentiae cūra sed vicēs impūnitātis.No doubt he had saved her, not out of clemency, since he had killed so many, but as a refuge for the future, because all the worst men, distrusting the present and dreading a change, prepare private favour against public hatred: hence no concern for innocence, but a trading of impunity. Hist. 1.74.1Eō īnfēnsior populus, additā ad vetus Tigellīnī odium recentī Titī Vīniī invidiā, concurrere ex tōtā urbe in Palātium ac fora et, ubi plūrima vulgī licentia, in circum ac theātra effūsī sēditiōsīs vōcibus strepere, dōnec Tigellīnus acceptō apud Sinuessānās aquās suprēmae necessitātis nūntiō inter stupra concubīnārum et ōscula et dēfōrmīs morās sectīs novāculā faucibus īnfāmem vītam foedāvit etiam exitū sērō et inhonestō.The people, all the more hostile now that fresh resentment against Titus Vinius was added to their old hatred of Tigellinus, ran together from the whole city to the Palatine and the forums, and pouring into the circus and theatres, where the licence of the crowd is greatest, clamoured with seditious cries, until Tigellinus, receiving at the waters of Sinuessa the news that his final hour had come, amid debauchery with his concubines and kisses and shameful delays, cut his throat with a razor, and so defiled an infamous life even by a late and dishonourable end.