Numerian
Numerian dislikes the food in Ctesiphon.
The light of the sun off the Tigris
burns his eyes, and he confines himself
to the darkness of his tent. This is not
a solution: a solution is the return to Rome,
which the soldiers want and the Persians
will wonder at. He never believed
his father would die, and after he did
Carus still filled the world
with his orders and his fears.
The soldiers can live up to one,
but not the other. Numerian will
not really live up to either.