<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Prince from Western Libya</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aristomenis, son of Menelaos,<br>the Prince from Western Libya,<br>was generally liked in Alexandria<br>during the ten days he spent there.<br>As his name, his dress, modest, was also Greek.<br>He received honors gladly,<br>but he did not solicit them; he was unassuming.<br>He bought Greek books,<br>especially history and philosophy.<br>Above all he was a man of few words.<br>It got around that he must be a profound thinker,<br>and men like that naturally don't speak very much.<br> <br>He was neither a profound thinker nor anything else—<br>just a piddling, laughable man.<br>He assumed a Greek name, dressed like the Greeks,<br>learned to behave more or less like a Greek;<br>and all the time he was terrified he would spoil<br>his reasonably good image<br>by coming out with barbaric howlers in Greek<br>and the Alexandrians, in their usual way,<br>would make fun of him, vile people that they are.<br> <br>This was why he limited himself to a few words,<br>terribly careful of his syntax and pronunciation;<br>and he was driven almost out of his mind, having<br>so much talk bottled up inside him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358670" data-title="A Prince from Western Libya de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="Aristomenis, son of Menelaos, the Prince from Western Libya, was generally liked in Alexandria during the ten days he spent there. As his name, his dress, modest, was also Greek. He received honors gladly, but he did not solicit them; he was unass..."></div> </div> </div>

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