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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358779" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Orophernis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The figure on this four drachma coin<br>who seems to have a smile on his face<br>his beautiful, delicate face<br>this figure is Orophernis, son of Ariarathis.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A child, they threw him out of Cappadocia,<br>out of his great ancestral palace,<br>and sent him to grow up in Ionia,<br>to be forgotten there among foreigners.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh those exquisite Ionian nights<br>when fearlessly, and entirely in a Greek way,<br>he came to know sensual pleasure totally.<br>In his heart, Asiatic always,<br>but in manners and language, a Greek;<br>with his turquoise jewellery, his Greek clothes,<br>his body perfumed with oil of jasmine,<br>he was the most handsome, the most perfect<br>of Ionia's handsome young men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later, when the Syrians entered Cappadocia<br>and made him king,<br>he became fully engrossed in his kingship<br>so as to enjoy himself in a new way each day,<br>greedily hoarding gold and silver,<br>delightedly gloating over<br>the piles of wealth glittering before his eyes.<br>As for worrying about the country and running it-<br>he had no idea what was going on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Cappadocians quickly got rid of him,<br>and he ended up in Syria, at the palace of Dimitrios,<br>where he spent his time amusing himself and loafing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But one day unfamiliar thoughts<br>broke in on his completely idle life:<br>he remembered how through his mother Antiochis<br>and that old grandmother Stratoniki<br>he too was connected with the Syrian crown,<br>he too almost a Selefkid.<br>For a while he gave up lechery and drink<br>and ineptly, half dazed,<br>tried to start an intrigue,<br>do something, come up with a plan;<br>but he failed pitifully and that was that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His end must have been recorded somewhere only to be lost;<br>or maybe history passed over it<br>and rightly didn't bother to notice<br>anything so trivial.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The figure on this four drachma coin,<br>something of whose young charm can still be seen,<br>a ray of his poetic beauty<br>this sensuous image of an Ionian boy,<br>this is Orophernis, son of Ariarathis.</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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his beautiful, delicate face
this figure is Orophernis, son of Ariarathis.

A child, they threw him out of Cappadocia,
out of his great ancestral palace,
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