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had reached Italy in such a squalid state:poorly dressed and on foot,only three or four slaves. This waytheir dynasty will become a joke,the laughter of Rome.Selefkidis of course knowsthat basically even now they’ve become something likeservantsto the Romans; he also knowsthat the Romans give and take awaytheir thrones arbitrarily, as they please.But they should maintain…

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full of adventure, full of instruction.The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,angry Poseidon – do not fear them:such as these you will never findas long as your thought is lofty, as long as a rareemotion touch your spirit and your body.The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,angry Poseidon – you will not meet themunless you carry them in your…

on reaching Athens to lecturefinds the city desertedbecause Herodis was in the country and all the young menhad followed him there to hear him.This makes sophist Alexanderwrite Herodis a letterbegging him to send the Greeks back.And the tactful Herodis answers at once:‘Along with the Greeks, I’m coming too.’How many young men now in Alexandria,in Antioch…

all their trappings silver.I sailed from Alexandria in a purple triremeto perform sacred rites—sacrifices and libations—in honor of Endymion.And here is the statue. I now gaze in ecstasyat Endymion’s famous beauty.My slaves empty baskets of jasmineand auspicious tributes revive the pleasure of ancient days.

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But he read for barely ten minutes,then gave it up, falling half-asleep on the sofa.He’s completely devoted to books –but he’s twenty-three, and very good-looking;and this afternoon Eros penetratedhis ideal flesh, his lips,an erotic warmth penetratedhis lovely flesh-with no ridiculous shame about the form the pleasure took….

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‘We’re completely broke -so hard up, the two of us,that we’re stuck with the cheapest places.I can’t go around with you any more -it’s no use hiding the fact.I’ve got to tell you, somebody else is after me.’The ‘somebody else’ had promised him two suits, some silk handkerchiefs.He himself, to get his friend back,went through…