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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358752" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kaisarion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Partly to throw light on a certain period,<br>partly to kill an hour or two,<br>last night I picked up and read<br>a volume of inscriptions about the Ptolemies.<br>The lavish praise and flattery are much the same<br>for each of them. All are brilliant,<br>glorious, mighty, benevolent;<br>everything they undertake is full of wisdom.<br>As for the women of their line, the Berenices and Cleopatras,<br>they too, all of them, are marvelous.<br> <br>When I'd verified the facts I wanted<br>I would have put the book away had not a brief<br>insignificant mention of King Kaisarion<br>suddenly caught my eye...<br> <br>And there you were with your indefinable charm.<br>Because we know<br>so little about you from history,<br>I could fashion you more freely in my mind.<br>I made you good-looking and sensitive.<br>My art gives your face<br>a dreamy, an appealing beauty.<br>And so completely did I imagine you<br>that late last night,<br>as my lamp went out—I let it go out on purpose—<br>it seemed you came into my room,<br>it seemed you stood there in front of me, looking just as you would have<br>in conquered Alexandria,<br>pale and weary, ideal in your grief,<br>still hoping they might take pity on you,<br>those scum who whispered: &quot;Too many Caesars.&quot;</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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partly to kill an hour or two,
last night I picked up and read
a volume of inscriptions about the Ptolemies.
The lavish praise and flattery are much the same
for each of them. All are brilliant,
glorious,..."></div>
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