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Galba... a miserable sort of man... bisexual... fancied mature slaves, especially if they had been a little mutilated... all his freed men had no fingers on the left hands... he's dead -- died screaming... in a cellar.

 
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And in Spain Galba
secretly musters and drills his army —
Galba, the old man in his seventy-third year.

 
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