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Lucan later joined the 65 AD conspiracy of Gaius Calpurnius Piso against Nero.

His treason discovered, he was obliged to commit suicide by opening a vein at the age of 25, but not before incriminating his mother, among others, in hopes of a pardon.

According to Tacitus, as Lucan bled to death, "( he ) recalled some poetry he had composed in which he had told the story of a wounded soldier dying a similar kind of death, and he recited the very lines.

These were his last words.