Take care the engraving’s artistically done.
\nExpression grave and majestic.
\nThe diadem better rather narrow;
\nI don’t care for those wide ones, the Parthian kind.
\nThe inscription, as usual, in Greek:
\nnothing excessive, nothing grandiose-
\nthe proconsul mustn’t get the wrong idea,
\nhe sniffs out everything and reports it back to Rome-
\nbut of course it should still do me credit.
\nSomething really choice on the other side:
\nsome lovely discus-thrower lad.
\nAbove all, I urge you, see to it
\n(Sithaspes, by the god, don’t let them forget)
\nthat after the “King” and the “Savior”
\nthe engraving should say, in elegant letters, “Philhellene.”
\nNow don’t start in on me with your quips,
\nYour “where are the Greeks?” and “what’s Greek
\nhere, behind the Z\u00e1gros, beyond Phr\u00e1ata?”
\nMany, many others, more oriental than ourselves,
\nwrite it, and so we’ll write it too.
\nAnd after all, don’t forget that now and then
\nsophists come to us from Syria,
\nand versifiers, and other devotees of puffery.
\nHence unhellenized we are not, I rather think.<\/p>\n
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