With words, with countenance, and with manners <br />I shall build an excellent panoply; <br />and in this way I shall face evil men <br />without having any fear or weakness. <br /> <br />They will want to harm me. But of those <br />who approach me none will know <br />where my wounds are, my vulnerable parts, <br />under all the lies that will cover me. -- <br /> <br /> <br />Boastful words of Aemilianus Monae. <br />Did he ever build this panoply? <br />In any case, he did not wear it much. <br />He died in Sicily, at the age of twenty-seven.<br /><br />Constantine P. Cavafy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aemilianus-monae-alexandrian-628-655-a-d/
