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Anacreon
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“I would not have Amalthea's horn, nor even a reign of a hundred years and fifty over all-happy Tartessus.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poems, Book I, 8 (tr. Edmonds, 1924, pp. 140-3)
“Lo now! golden-haired Love hits me with his purple ball and calls me forth to play with a motley-slippered maid, but no, she hails from grand Lesbos, and so she finds fault with my hair because it is white, and goes gaping after another.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poems, Book I, 84 (tr. Edmonds, 1924, pp. 144-7)
“Thracian filly, tell me why You look askance when I come nigh, And flee unkind, as though I knew Naught of how to manage you? Should it please me, truth to tell, I could bridle you right well, And take and ride you hand on rein Up the course and down again; And if instead you graze your fill And frisk it in the meadow still, 'Tis but because a man like me Knows how long to leave you free.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Iambics, Book IV, 84 (tr. Edmonds, 1931, vol. i, p. 27)
“Ἂν δ᾽ ὁ γέρων χορεύῃ, τρίχας γέρων μέν ἐστιν, τὰς δε φρένας νεάζει.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, XXXIX (XXXVII), 3 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 323)
“Τὸ σήμερον μέλει μοι, τὸ δ᾽ αὔριον τίς οἶδεν;”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, VIII (VII), 9 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 512)
“Πηγὴ ῥέουσα πειθοῦς.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, XVIII, 18 (6) (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 479)
“Ἡ γῆ μέλαινα πίνει, πίνει δένδρεα δ᾽ αὖ γῆν. πίνει θάλασσ᾽ ἀναύρους, ὁ δ᾽ ἥλιος θάλασσαν, τὸν δ᾽ ἥλιον σελήνη· τί μοι μάχεσθ᾽, ἑταῖροι, καὐτῷ θέλοντι πίνειν;”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, 21 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 384)
“Φύσις κέρατα ταύροις, ὁπλὰς δ᾽ ἔδωκεν ἵπποις, ποδωκίην λαγωοῖς, λέουσι χάσμ᾽ ὀδόντων, τοῖς ἰχθύσιν τὸ νηκτὸν, τοῖς ὀρνέοις πέτασθαι, τοῖς ἀνδράσιν φρόνημα, γυναιξὶν οὐκέτ᾽ εἶχεν· τί οὖν; δίδωσι κάλλος, ἀντ᾿ ἀσπίδων ἁπασῶν, ἀντ᾿ ἐγχέων ἁπάντων· νικᾷ δὲ καὶ σίδηρον καὶ πῦρ καλή τις οὖσα.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, XXIV (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 529)
“Χαλεπὸν τὸ μὴ φιλῆσαι· χαλεπὸν δὲ καὶ φιλῆσαι· χαλεπώτερον δὲ πάντων ἀποτυγχάνειν φιλοῦντα.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, XXIX (XXVII), 1 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 530)
“Γένος οὐδὲν εἰς Ἔρωτα· σοφίη, τρόπος πατεῖται· μόνον ἄργυρον βλέπουσιν.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, XXIX (XXVIL, b), 5 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 343)
“Ἀπόλοιτο πρῶτος αὐτὸς ὁ τὸν ἄργυρον φιλήσας διὰ τοῦτον οὐκ ἀδελφὸς, διὰ τοῦτον οὐ τοκῆες· πόλεμοι, φόνοι δι᾽ αὐτόν.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, XXIX (XXVIL, b), 8 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 333)
“Πόθεν οἴδαμεν τὸ μέλλον; ὁ βίος βροτοῖς ἄδηλος.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, XXXVIII (XXXVL), 19 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 481)
“Φιλολοιδόροιο γλώττης ἔφυγον βέλεμνα κουφά.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, XLII (XL), 11 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 527)
“Θανεῖν με δεῖ κἂν μὴ θέλω· τὶ τὸν βίον πλανῶμαι;”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XLV (XLIII), 5 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 392)
“Τὸ θανεῖν γὰρ μετὰ πάντα.”
Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odes, L (XLVIII), 28 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 510)