Pindar and Anacreon/Anacreon

by Anonymous

For other English-language translations of this work, see Anacreontea.

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ANACREON.

 

TRANSLATED BY

THOMAS BOURNE.

 

NEW-YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-STREET

 

 

In the notes will be found no laboured comments on the peculiar force or meaning of a Greek particle, nor any long dissertations on disputed passages.

To the scholar and the critic they would impart no new information, and to those unacquainted with the original must be altogether useless. I have preferred selecting from various writers such extracts as I thought likely to prove interesting to the general reader, and to facilitate his comprehension of the English version, by illustrating those manners and customs, which are still peculiar to the people of the East.

To preceding editors I am indebted for many useful observations, which I have distinguished by the names of their respective authors. In the arrangement of these notes I am happy likewise to acknowledge the judicious advice and assistance of my friend, Mr. T. Gandy, member of the Philomathic Society, and of several other literary institutions.

T. B.

 

 

CONTENTS.

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Biographical Sketch of Anacreon			v
Ode	I.—On his Lyre		13
—	II.—On Women		14
—	III.—Cupid Benighted		15
—	IV.—On Himself		16
—	V.—On the Rose		18
—	VI.—The Banquet		19
—	VII.—On Cupid		20
—	VIII.—On his Dream		21
—	IX.—On a Dove		22
—	X.—On a Waxen Cupid		24
—	XI.—On Himself		24
—	XII.—On a Swallow		25
—	XIII.—On Himself		26
—	XIV.—On Cupid		27
—	XV.—Happy Life		28
—	XVI.—The Captive		29
—	XVII.—On a Silver Bowl		29
—	XVIII.—On the same subject		31
—	XIX.—Reasons for Drinking		31
—	XX.—To his Mistress		32
—	XXI.—Summer		33
—	XXII.—The Bower		34
—	XXIII.—The Vanity of Wealth		35
—	XXIV.—Life to be Enjoyed		35
—	XXV.—The Cure for Care		36
—	XXVI.—In Praise of Wine		36
—	XXVII.—The same subject		37
—	XXVIII.—On his Mistress		37
—	XXX.—Cupid taken Prisoner		40
—	XXXI.—Pleasing Phrensy		40
—	XXXII.—On the Number of his Mistresses		41
—	XXXIII.—On a Swallow		42
—	XXXIV.—To his Mistress		43
—	XXXV.—On a Picture representing Europa		44
—	XXXVI.—Life to be Enjoyed		44
—	XXXVII.—On the Spring		45
—	XXXVIII.—On Himself		46
—	XXXIX.—On Himself		47
—	XL.—Cupid Wounded		48
—	XLI.—The Banquet of Wine		49
—	XLII.—On Himself		50
—	XLIII.—On the Grasshopper		50
—	XLIV.—The Dream		52
—	XLV.—Cupid's Darts		52
—	XLVI.—The Power of Gold		54
—	XLVII.—Young Old Age		55
—	XLVIII.—Happy Life		55
—	XLIX.—To a Painter		56
—	L.—On Bacchus		56
—	LI.—On a Medal representing Venus		57
—	LII.—On the Vintage		59
—	LIII.—On the Rose		60
—	LIV.—On Himself		62
—	LV.—The Lover's Mark		63
—	LVI.—On his Old Age		64
—	LVII.—That Moderation enhances Enjoyment		64
—	LVIII.—Love in the Heart		65
—	LIX.—On Himself		65
—	LX.—On the Spring		66