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anacreon

/uh-nak-ree-uhn/US // əˈnæk ri ən //UK // (əˈnækrɪˌɒn, -ən) //

蚂蚁金服,蚂蚁,蚂蚁花呗,蚂蚱

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : c570–c480 b.c., Greek writer, especially of love poems and drinking songs.

Examples

  • The drinking-song, from Anacreon down to all his imitators in Germany, occupies a special and very prominent place in literature.

  • Anacreon, the lyric poet, was his contemporary, and all his poetry abounds with the praises of Polycrates.

  • Voltaire says, that Anacreon, less old, produced less charming compositions.

  • Go and amuse yourself with Horace, study Pausanias, and be gay over Anacreon.

  • It occurs in several later miscellanies; and in the variorum translation of Anacreon published at Oxford in 1683.