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
- : 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.
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