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I’m the Lagid, a king. The possessor absolute

(with my power and my riches) of pleasure.

There’s no Macedonian, no Eastern foreigner

who’s my equal, who even comes close. What

a joke, that Seleucid with his vulgar luxe.

But if there’s something more you seek, then simply look:

the City is our teacher, the acme of what is Greek,

of every discipline, of every art the peak.

[1896; 1911; 1911]