to the contents page.)On this krater of pure silver which for Heraclides' house was made, where good taste reigns supreme behold these graceful blooms, and streams, and thyme, and in the centre's seen a beautiful young man, erotic, naked; one leg in the water still. - I begged you, memory, to be my best accomplice in the recreation of the way his face had been, this youth I loved. A formidable task, for something like a decade and a half had passed by since the day he fell, a soldier, at the battle of Magnesia.
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