<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358839" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tomb of Evrion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this tomb—ornately designed,<br>the whole of syenite stone,<br>covered by so many violets, so many lilies—<br>lies handsome Evrion,<br>an Alexandrian, twenty-five years old.<br>On his father's side, he was of old Macedonian stock,<br>on his mother's side, descended from a line of magistrates.<br>He studied philosophy with Aristokleitos,<br>rhetoric with Paros, and at Thebes<br>the sacred scriptures. He wrote a history<br>of the province of Arsinoites. That at least will survive.<br>But we've lost what was really precious: his form—<br>like a vision of Apollo.</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=358839" data-title="Tomb of Evrion de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="In this tomb—ornately designed, the whole of syenite stone, covered by so many violets, so many lilies— lies handsome Evrion, an Alexandrian, twenty-five years old. On his father's side, he was of old Macedonian stock, on his mother's side, de..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black