<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358800" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lines written by young Temethos, madly in love.<br>The tile: 'Emonidis' -the favourite<br>of Antiochos Epiphanis; a very good-looking young man<br>from Samosata. But if the lines come out<br>ardent, full of feeling, it's because Emonidis<br>(belonging to another, much older time:<br>the 137th year of the Greek kingdom,<br>maybe a bit earlier) is in the poem<br>merely as a name -a suitable one nevertheless.<br>The poem gives voice to the love Temethos feels,<br>a beautiful kind of love, worthy of him. <br>We the initiated<br>his intimate friends- we the initiated<br>know about whom those lines were written.<br>The unsuspecting Antiochians read simply 'Emonidis'.</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=358800" data-title="Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400 de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="Lines written by young Temethos, madly in love. The tile: 'Emonidis' -the favourite of Antiochos Epiphanis; a very good-looking young man from Samosata. But if the lines come out ardent, full of feeling, it's because Emonidis (belonging to another..."></div> </div> </div>

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