CinyrasI
The Priest-King of Paphos stroked his beard and smiled at his interlocutor. That was something else which characterized a true leader: the ability to substitute, whenever necessary, eloquence for policies, generosity for arguments. Talthyvios may not yet have succumbed to his suggestion that he take a bath, relax and get acquainted with the young priestesses of the temple or the pleasant youth from Crete before revealing the unpleasant duties that had brought him to Cyprus, but at least it was not possible for him to guess the intimate thoughts of Cinyras!
He gave a sign for the goblets to be refilled. The wine of Paphos, he had observed, intoxicated foreigners more easily than locals. And he had a duty to conceal his surprise from the envoy of Agamemnon, to put off as long as p
