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Konstantinos Petrou Kabaphes, 1863-1933. All translations from the Greek by Rae Dalven, from: "The Complete Poems of Cavafy"; Harvest Books, 1976.

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The Poems of Constantine Cavafy, No. 1: Nero's Term

by KingK0ng
3-18-01

Nero was not a larmed when he heard the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle.


	"Let him fear the seventy-three years"

He is thirty years old. the term the god allots to him is quite sufficient for him to prepare for perils to come. Now he will return to Rome slightly fatigued, but delightfully fatigued from this jo


	Ah, the voluptuous delight of nude bodies, above all...

These things Nero thought. And in Spain, Galba secretly assembles and drills his army, the old man of seventy-three.

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