According To The Formulas Of Ancient Grecosyrian Magi (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
"What distillate can be discovered from herbs of a witching brew," said an aesthete, "what distillate prepared according to the ...
"What distillate can be discovered from herbs of a witching brew," said an aesthete, "what distillate prepared according to the ...
He's an old man. Used up and bent, crippled by time and indulgence, he slowly walks along the narrow street. ...
"Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--" We can very well imagine that they were utterly indifferent ...
One dreary September day Emperor Manuel Komninos felt his death was near. The court astrologers -bribed, of course- went on ...
In the prologue to her Alexiad, Anna Comnena laments her widowhood. Her soul is dizzy. "And with rivers of tears," ...
He wrapped them carefully, neatly in costly green silk. Roses of ruby, lilies of pearl, violets of amethyst. As he ...
Amid fear and suspicions, with agitated mind and frightened eyes, we melt and plan how to act to avoid the ...
My dear old father, who always loved me the same; my dear old father I lament who died the day ...
Our efforts are those of the unfortunate; our efforts are like those of the Trojans. Somewhat we succeed; somewhat we ...
My work, I'm very careful about it, and I love it. But today I'm discouraged by how slowly it's going. ...
One monotonous day is followed by another monotonous, identical day. The same things will happen, they will happen again -- ...
A young man, twenty eight years old, on a vessel from Tenos, Emes arrived at this Syrian harbor with the ...
So much I gazed on beauty, that my vision is replete with it. Contours of the body. Red lips. Voluptuous ...
From all I've done and all I've said let them not seek to find who I've been. An obstacle stood ...
Ideal and beloved voices of those who are dead, or of those who are lost to us like the dead. ...
Said Myrtias (a Syrian student in Alexandria; in the reign of Augustus Constans and Augustus Constantius; in part a pagan, ...
Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown old and they shut them, with tears, in a magnificent ...
Kimos, son of Menedoros, a young Greek-Italian, devotes his life to amusing himself, like most young men in Greater Greece ...
Because gods perceive future things, men what is happening now, but wise men perceive approaching things. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius ...
For some people the day comes when they have to declare the great Yes or the great No. It's clear ...
The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language after so many centuries of mingling with Tyrrhenians, Latins, and other foreigners. The only ...
Let me stop here. Let me, too, look at nature awhile. The brilliant blue of the morning sea, of the ...
Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me -- when the memory of the body awakens, and ...
He said that he had hurt himself on a wall or that he had fallen. But there was probably another ...
Without consideration, without pity, without shame they have built great and high walls around me. And now I sit here ...
Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds on which you lay, but also those ...
Let them not seek to discover who I was from all that I have done and said. An obstacle was ...
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom ...
I never had you, nor will I ever have you I suppose. A few words, an approach as in the ...
You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I ...
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