For a Statue of Anacreon Poem by Theocritus

For a Statue of Anacreon



This statue, stranger, scan with earnest gaze;
And, home returning, say 'I have beheld
Anacreon, in Teos; him whose lays
Were all unmatched among our sires of eld.'
Say further: 'Youth and beauty pleased him best;'
And all the man will fairly stand expressed.

translated by C. S. Calverley

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Syracuse, Italy
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