In this obscene photograph sold in the street

how sadly those around him talk.Kyr Theophilos Palaiologosin his grief, in his despair, says:‘I would rather die than live.’Ah, Kyr Theophilos Palaiologos,how much of the pathos, the yearning of our race,how much weariness-such exhaustion from injustice and persecution-your six tragic words contained.

was generally liked in Alexandriaduring the ten days he spent there.In keeping with his name, his dress was also suitably Greek.He received honours gladly,but he didn’t solicit them; he was unassuming.He bought Greek books,especially history and philosophy.Above all he was a man of few words.It got around that he must be a profound thinker,and men…

Sophocles wrote it in a deeply philosophic mood.How much we’ll tell down there, how much,and how very different we’ll appear.What we protect here like sleepless guards,wounds and secrets locked inside us,protect with such great anxiety day after day,we’ll reveal freely and clearly down there.’‘You might add,’ said the sophist, half smiling,‘if they talk about things…

I had seen it must have been twenty years before . . .For a month we loved each otherThen he went away, I think to Smyrna,To work there; we never saw each other again.The grey eyes —- if he lives —- have lost their beauty;The beautiful face will have been spoiled.O Memory, preserve them as…

that I enjoyed the very same body.This isn’t some erotic fantasy.I’ve only just come into the casinoand there hasn’t been time enough to drink.I tell you, that’s the very same body I once enjoyed.And if I can’t recall precisely where—that means nothing.Now that he’s sitting there at the next table,I recognize each of his movements—and…

how completely indifferent the Spartans would have beento this inscription. ‘Except the Lacedaimonians’-naturally. The Spartans weren’t to be ledand ordered aroundlike precious servants. Besides,they wouldn’t have thought a pan-Hellenic expeditionwithout a Spartan king in commandwas to be taken very seriously.Of course, then, ‘except the Lacedaimonians.’That’s certainly one point of view. Quite understandable.So, ‘except the Lacedaimonians’…