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Anacreon
[ uh-nak-ree-uhn ]
noun
- c570–c480 b.c., Greek writer, especially of love poems and drinking songs.
Anacreon
/ -ən; əˈnækrɪˌɒn /
noun
- Anacreon?572 bc?488 bcMGreekWRITING: poet ?572–?488 bc , Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
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The drinking-song, from Anacreon down to all his imitators in Germany, occupies a special and very prominent place in literature.
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Anacreon, the lyric poet, was his contemporary, and all his poetry abounds with the praises of Polycrates.
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Voltaire says, that Anacreon, less old, produced less charming compositions.
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Go and amuse yourself with Horace, study Pausanias, and be gay over Anacreon.
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It occurs in several later miscellanies; and in the variorum translation of Anacreon published at Oxford in 1683.
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