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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358767" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Dimitrios Sotir</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Everything he'd hoped for turned out wrong.<br>He'd seen himself doing great things,<br>ending the humiliation that had kept his country down<br>ever since the battle of Magnesia<br>seen himself making Syria a powerful state again,<br>with her armies, her fleets,<br>her big fortresses, her wealth.<br>He'd suffered in Rome, become bitter<br>when he sensed in the talk of friends,<br>young men of the great families,<br>that in spite of all their delicacy, their politeness<br>toward him, the son<br>of King Selefkos Philopator-<br>when he sensed that in spite of this there was always<br>a secret contempt for the Hellenized dynasties:<br>their heyday was over, they weren't fit for anything serious,<br>were completely unable to rule their peoples.<br>He'd cut himself off, indignant, swearing<br>it would be quite different from the way they thought.<br>Why, wasn't he himself full of determination?<br>He would act, he would fight, he would put it all right again.<br>If he could only find a way of getting to the East,<br>only manage to escape from Italy,<br>then all this inner strength,<br>all this energy,<br>he'd pass on to his people.<br>Only to be in Syria!<br>He was so young when he left his country<br>he hardly remembered what it looked like.<br>But in his mind he'd always thought of it<br>as something sacred that you approach reverently,<br>as a beautiful place unveiled, a vision<br>of Greek cities and Greek ports.<br>And now?<br>Now despair and sorrow.<br>They were right, the young men in Rome.<br>The dynasties resulting from the Macedonian Conquest<br>can't be kept going any longer.<br>It doesn't matter. He'd made the effort,<br>fought as much as he could.<br>And in his bleak disillusion<br>there's only one thing in which he still takes pride:<br>that even in failure<br>he shows the world his same indomitable courage.<br>The rest: they were dreams and wasted energy.<br>This Syria -it almost seems it isn't his country<br>this Syria is the land of Valas and Herakleidis.</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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He'd seen himself doing great things,
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