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The figure on this four drachma coin	A
who seems to have a smile on his face	B
his beautiful delicate face	B
this figure is Orophernis son of Ariarathis	B
	-
A child they threw him out of Cappadocia	C
out of his great ancestral palace	B
and sent him to grow up in Ionia	A
to be forgotten there among foreigners	B
	-
Oh those exquisite Ionian nights	B
when fearlessly and entirely in a Greek way	D
he came to know sensual pleasure totally	E
In his heart Asiatic always	B
but in manners and language a Greek	F
with his turquoise jewellery his Greek clothes	B
his body perfumed with oil of jasmine	A
he was the most handsome the most perfect	G
of Ionia's handsome young men	A
	-
Later when the Syrians entered Cappadocia	C
and made him king	H
he became fully engrossed in his kingship	I
so as to enjoy himself in a new way each day	D
greedily hoarding gold and silver	J
delightedly gloating over	J
the piles of wealth glittering before his eyes	B
As for worrying about the country and running it	K
he had no idea what was going on	A
	-
The Cappadocians quickly got rid of him	L
and he ended up in Syria at the palace of Dimitrios	B
where he spent his time amusing himself and loafing	H
	-
But one day unfamiliar thoughts	B
broke in on his completely idle life	M
he remembered how through his mother Antiochis	B
and that old grandmother Stratoniki	H
he too was connected with the Syrian crown	A
he too almost a Selefkid	K
For a while he gave up lechery and drink	H
and ineptly half dazed	K
tried to start an intrigue	H
do something come up with a plan	A
but he failed pitifully and that was that	K
	-
His end must have been recorded somewhere only to be lost	K
or maybe history passed over it	K
and rightly didn't bother to notice	B
anything so trivial	N
	-
The figure on this four drachma coin	A
something of whose young charm can still be seen	A
a ray of his poetic beauty	K
this sensuous image of an Ionian boy	O
this is Orophernis son of Ariarathis	B

Constantine P. Cavafy

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