Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Odes of Anacreon Anacreontics: And Other Selections From the Greek Anthology
The present volume contains the best that is left of Anacreon. The translations, which are for the first time put into English verse, make no pretence to follow the original meter. They simply follow, as closely as possible, the thought of the Greek, and are cast into a semi-metrical form, though in some instances they might be fairly called verse. These de lightfully fresh and graceful fragments must ever make the lover of poetry regret that so few such ?owers have been rescued from before the scythe of Time.
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