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Anacreon

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A·nac·re·on  (-nkr-n) 563?-478? b.c.
Greek poet noted for his songs praising love and wine.
Anacreon [əˈnækrɪˌɒn -ən]
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(Biographies / Anacreon (?572 bc-?488 bc) M, Greek, WRITING: poet) ?572-?488 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
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Anacreon [əˈnækrɪən] N → Anacreonte
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For being an idle boy lang syne; Who read Anacreon and drank wine, I early found Anacreon rhymes Were almost passionate sometimes-- And by strange alchemy of brain His pleasures always turned to pain-- His naiveté to wild desire-- His wit to love-his wine to fire-- And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy,
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I studied Greek, and I learned so much of it as to read a chapter of the Testament, and an ode of Anacreon.
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