And magi came from Chaldean
lands, bureaucrats from Egypt
and the teachers from India,
wise men too from harmonious
Hellas
seers and prophets and
heroes and rhapsodists,
the highest of all and most
educated and many came
from the island of Thule
and all the suitors brought their
inexplicable riddles to her
all that belonged to
the Sphinx and Cybil and none
of them remained unexplained
and all the mouths which uttered
the riddles were swallowed by
the hungry Hades and she
walked over their bodies…
Manolis Aligizakis 