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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358703" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dimaratos</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His subject, 'The Character of Dimaratos',<br>which Porphyry proposed to him in conversation<br>was outlined by the young sophist as follows<br>(he planned to develop it rhetorically later):<br>'First a courtier of King Dareios,<br>and after that of King Xerxes,<br>now with Xerxes and his army,<br>at last Dimaratos will be vindicated.<br>He'd been treated very unjustly.<br>He was definitely Ariston's son, but his enemies<br>bribed the oracle brazenly.<br>And it wasn't enough that they deprived him of his kingship,<br>but when he finally gave in and decided<br>to live quietly as a private citizen,<br>they had to insult him even in front of the people,<br>they had to humiliate him publicly at the festival.<br>As a result, he serves Xerxes assiduously.<br>Along with the great Persian army,<br>he'll make it back to Sparta too;<br>and once he's king again, how quickly<br>he'll throw him out, how thoroughly<br>he'll shame that schemer Leotychidis.<br>So now he spends his days full of anxiety,<br>advising the Persians, explaining<br>what they should do to conquer Greece.<br>Much worrying, much thinking, and for this reason<br>Dimaratos finds his days so burdensome;<br>much worrying, much thinking, and for this reason<br>Dimaratos can't find a moment's joy<br>because what he's feeling can't be called joy<br>(it isn't; he won't admit it;<br>how can he call it joy? his distress couldn't be greater)<br>now things make it quite clear to him<br>that it's the Greeks who are going to win.'</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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