Sosipaters Ptolemies Poem by dimitrios galanis

Sosipaters, Saviors, Eupaters, Benefactors, Filopatrides,
a whole plethora the Ptolemies,
the self-appointed power suitors,
around the arenas and markets of promotion
mourning for the calamitous downhill:
' Inapt charioteers did not find escape avenues
and let the state's chariot
precipitate in slippery paths.'
-Will they let people bleed in this swamp,
in the abyss of the evil's mud?
Marching, their promise, upwards triumphal,
and as Ptolemies used always to do
soon in the parade on the triumph boulevards
the crowd will be honorary invited
to sprinkle them with laurels
honouring the Ptolemies
being again in charge of the reins
upon the chariot of wassail