Complex sentence: Before Nero fled Rome in AD 68, he acquired poison from Locusta for his own use and kept it in a golden box, but died by other means Suetonius, Nero 47.
Split into simpler sentences: Before Nero fled Rome in AD 68, he acquired poison from Locusta for his own use and kept it in a golden box. He eventually died by other means Suetonius, Nero 47.