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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358696" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Darius</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poet Phernazis is composing<br>the important part of his epic poem.<br>How Darius, son of Hystaspes,<br>assumed the kingdom of the Persians. (From him<br>is descended our glorious king<br>Mithridates, Dionysus and Eupator). But here<br>philosophy is needed; he must analyze<br>the sentiments that Darius must have had:<br>maybe arrogance and drunkenness; but no -- rather<br>like an understanding of the vanity of grandeurs.<br>The poet contemplates the matter deeply.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But he is interrupted by his servant who enters<br>running, and announces the portendous news.<br>The war with the Romans has begun.<br>The bulk of our army has crossed the borders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poet is speechless. What a disaster!<br>No time now for our glorious king<br>Mithridates, Dionysus and Eupator,<br>to occupy himself with greek poems.<br>In the midst of a war -- imagine, greek poems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Phernazis is impatient. Misfortune!<br>Just when he was positive that with &quot;Darius&quot;<br>he would distinguish himself, and shut the mouths<br>of his critics, the envious ones, for good.<br>What a delay, what a delay to his plans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if it were only a delay, it would still be all right.<br>But it yet remains to be seen if we have any security<br>at Amisus. It is not a strongly fortified city.<br>The Romans are the most horrible enemies.<br>Can we hold against them<br>we Cappadocians? It is possible at all?<br>It is possible to pit ourselves against the legions?<br>Mighty Gods, protectors of Asia, help us.--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in all his turmoil and trouble,<br>the poetic idea too comes and goes persistently--<br>the most probable, surely, is arrogance and drunkenness;<br>Darius must have felt arrogance and drunkenness.</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>
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How Darius, son of Hystaspes,
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