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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358733" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Sparta</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He didn't know, King Kleomenis, he didn't dare—<br>he just did not know how to tell his mother<br>a thing like this: that Ptolemy demanded,<br>to guarantee their treaty, that she too go to Egypt<br>and be held there as a hostage—<br>a very humiliating, indecorous thing.<br>And he would be about to speak yet always hesitate,<br>would start to tell her yet always stop.<br> <br>But the magnificent woman understood him<br>(she had already heard some rumors about it)<br>and she encouraged him to come out with it clearly.<br>And she laughed, saying of course she would go,<br>indeed was happy that in her old age<br>she could be useful to Sparta still.<br> <br>As for the humiliation—that didn't touch her at all.<br>Of course an upstart like the Lagid<br>couldn't possibly comprehend the Spartan spirit;<br>so his demand could not in fact humiliate<br>a Royal Lady like herself:<br>mother of a Spartan king.</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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