SOPHIST LEAVING SYRIA
Distinguished sophist you, who are now leaving Syria
planning to write about Antioch
it is commendable to refer to Mevis in your work.
The famous Mevis who is undeniably
the handsomest young man and most loved
in all of Antioch. No other young man
leads the same life, none is paid
as much as he is. To have Mevis
only two, or three days often they give him
as much as one hundred staters.— I said, in Antioch;
but also in Alexandria, even in Rome
there is no young man as desired as Mevis.
Manolis Aligizakis 