The plots and headaches
were getting to Nero
still a young man at 30,
who took heart from Delphi

“Beware the age of seventy-three”

plenty of time, plenty of time…

He returned to Rome and drank deep
of wine, theatre and games
killed Domitius Corbulo,
the commander in the east

The delight of young bodies
in the towns of Achaia

In Spain, Galba drills his army
in his seventy-third year.