<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358756" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kleitos' Illness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kleitos, a likeable young man,<br>about twenty-three years old<br>with a first-class education, a rare knowledge of Greek<br>is seriously ill. He caught the fever<br>that reaped a harvest this year in Alexandria.<br>The fever found him already worn out morally<br>by the pain of knowing that his friend, a young actor,<br>had stopped loving and wanting him.<br>He's seriously ill, and his parents are terribly worried.<br>An old servant who brought him up<br>is also full of fear for Kleitos' life;<br>and in her panic<br>she remembers an idol she used to worship<br>when she was young, before she came there as a maid,<br>to the house of distinguished Christians, and turned Christian<br>herself.<br>She secretly brings some votive bread, some wine and honey,<br>and places them before the idol. She chants whatever phrases<br>she remembers from old prayers: odds and ends. The ninny<br>doesn't realize that the black demon couldn't care less<br>whether a Christian gets well or not.</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=358756" data-title="Kleitos' Illness de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="Kleitos, a likeable young man, about twenty-three years old with a first-class education, a rare knowledge of Greek is seriously ill. He caught the fever that reaped a harvest this year in Alexandria. The fever found him already worn out morally b..."></div> </div> </div>

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