{"id":5516,"date":"2021-04-26T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.varrias.com\/portfolio-item\/18-a-certain-dignity-at-least\/"},"modified":"2021-08-01T23:16:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:16:48","slug":"18-a-certain-dignity-at-least","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.varrias.com\/en\/portfolio-item\/18-a-certain-dignity-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"18. 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A certain dignity at least<\/h3>\n<p><em>Constantine P. Cavafy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Displeasure of Selefkidis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dimitrios Selefkidis was displeased<br \/>\nto learn that a Ptolemy<br \/>\nhad reached Italy in such a squalid state:<br \/>\npoorly dressed and on foot,<br \/>\nonly three or four slaves. This way<br \/>\ntheir dynasty will become a joke,<br \/>\nthe laughter of Rome.<br \/>\nSelefkidis of course knows that basically<br \/>\neven now they&#8217;ve become something like<br \/>\n<\/em><em>servants to the Romans; he also knows<br \/>\nthat the Romans give and take away<br \/>\ntheir thrones arbitrarily, as they please.<br \/>\nBut they should maintain <strong>a certain dignity<br \/>\nat least <\/strong>in their appearance;<br \/>\nthey shouldn&#8217;t forget that they are still kings,<br \/>\nare still (alas) called kings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is why Dimitrios Selefkidis was displeased;<br \/>\nand right away he offered Ptolemy<br \/>\npurple robes, a magnificent diadem,<br \/>\nprecious jewels, numerous servants and retainers,<br \/>\nhis most expensive horses,<br \/>\nso that he might present himself at Rome as he should,<br \/>\nas an Alexandrian Greek monarch.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>But Ptolemy, who&#8217;d come to beg,<br \/>\nknew his business and refused it all:<br \/>\nhe didn&#8217;t have the slightest need for these luxuries.<br \/>\nShabbily dressed, humble, he entered Rome,<br \/>\nput himself up in the house of a minor artisan,<br \/>\nand then presented himself<br \/>\nas a poor, ill-fated creature to the Senate<br \/>\nin order to make his begging more effective.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Constantine P. Cavafy (1915)<\/em><br \/>\nTranslated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrand<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[72],"class_list":["post-5516","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-20-persons-in-gray-from-cavafys-poetry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>18. 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