<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358719" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Herodis Attikos</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What glory, this, for Herodis Attikos!<br>Alexander of Selefkia, one of our better sophists,<br>on reaching Athens to lecture<br>finds the city deserted<br>because Herodis was in the country and all the young men<br>had followed him there to hear him.<br>This makes sophist Alexander<br>write Herodis a letter<br>begging him to send the Greeks back.<br>And the tactful Herodis answers at once:<br>'Along with the Greeks, I'm coming too.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many young men now in Alexandria,<br>in Antioch or Beirut<br>(being trained by Hellenism as its future orators),<br>meeting at choice banquets<br>where the talk is sometimes about fine sophistry,<br>sometimes about their exquisite love affairs,<br>suddenly find their attention wandering and fall silent?<br>Their glasses untouched,<br>they think about Herodis' fortune-<br>what other sophist has been given this kind of honour?<br>Whatever his wish, whatever he does,<br>the Greeks (the Greeks!) follow him,<br>not to criticize or debate,<br>not even to choose any longer,<br>only to follow.</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=358719" data-title="Herodis Attikos de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="What glory, this, for Herodis Attikos! Alexander of Selefkia, one of our better sophists, on reaching Athens to lecture finds the city deserted because Herodis was in the country and all the young men had followed him there to hear him. This makes..."></div> </div> </div>

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