<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358676" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alexandrian Kings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Alexandrians were gathered<br>to see Cleopatra's children,<br>Caesarion, and his little brothers,<br>Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first<br>time they lead out to the Gymnasium,<br>there to proclaim kings,<br>in front of the grand assembly of the soldiers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alexander -- they named him king<br>of Armenia, Media, and the Parthians.<br>Ptolemy -- they named him king<br>of Cilicia, Syria, and Phoenicia.<br>Caesarion stood more to the front,<br>dressed in rose-colored silk,<br>on his breast a bouquet of hyacinths,<br>his belt a double row of sapphires and amethysts,<br>his shoes fastened with white<br>ribbons embroidered with rose pearls.<br>Him they named more than the younger ones,<br>him they named King of Kings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Alexandrians of course understood<br>that those were theatrical words.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the day was warm and poetic,<br>the sky was a light azure,<br>the Alexandrian Gymnasium was<br>a triumphant achievement of art,<br>the opulence of the courtiers was extraordinary,<br>Caesarion was full of grace and beauty<br>(son of Cleopatra, blood of the Lagidae);<br>and the Alexandrians rushed to the ceremony,<br>and got enthusiastic, and cheered<br>in greek, and egyptian, and some in hebrew,<br>enchanted by the beautiful spectacle --<br>although they full well knew what all these were worth,<br>what hollow words these kingships were.</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=358676" data-title="Alexandrian Kings de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="The Alexandrians were gathered to see Cleopatra's children, Caesarion, and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first time they lead out to the Gymnasium, there to proclaim kings, in front of the grand assembly of the soldiers...."></div> </div> </div>

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