# Pindar and Anacreon/Anacreon

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Bourne's translation of the Odes formerly attributed to Anacreon. Modern scholarship considers the Anacreontea to be spurious or imitations written at a later date.
For whatever reason, there is no Ode XXIX. included in this volume.
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ANACREON.
TRANSLATED BY
THOMAS BOURNE.
NEW-YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-STREET
In the notes will be found no laboured comments on the peculiar force or meaning of a Greek particle, nor any long dissertations on disputed passages.
To the scholar and the critic they would impart no new information, and to those unacquainted with the original must be altogether useless. I have preferred selecting from various writers such extracts as I thought likely to prove interesting to the general reader, and to facilitate his comprehension of the English version, by illustrating those manners and customs, which are still peculiar to the people of the East.
To preceding editors I am indebted for many useful observations, which I have distinguished by the names of their respective authors. In the arrangement of these notes I am happy likewise to acknowledge the judicious advice and assistance of my friend, Mr. T. Gandy, member of the Philomathic Society, and of several other literary institutions.
T. B.
CONTENTS.
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| Biographical Sketch of Anacreon | Biographical Sketch of Anacreon | Biographical Sketch of Anacreon | v |
| Ode | I.—On his Lyre | | 13 |
| — | II.—On Women | | 14 |
| — | III.—Cupid Benighted | | 15 |
| — | IV.—On Himself | | 16 |
| — | V.—On the Rose | | 18 |
| — | VI.—The Banquet | | 19 |
| — | VII.—On Cupid | | 20 |
| — | VIII.—On his Dream | | 21 |
| — | IX.—On a Dove | | 22 |
| — | X.—On a Waxen Cupid | | 24 |
| — | XI.—On Himself | | 24 |
| — | XII.—On a Swallow | | 25 |
| — | XIII.—On Himself | | 26 |
| — | XIV.—On Cupid | | 27 |
| — | XV.—Happy Life | | 28 |
| — | XVI.—The Captive | | 29 |
| — | XVII.—On a Silver Bowl | | 29 |
| — | XVIII.—On the same subject | | 31 |
| — | XIX.—Reasons for Drinking | | 31 |
| — | XX.—To his Mistress | | 32 |
| — | XXI.—Summer | | 33 |
| — | XXII.—The Bower | | 34 |
| — | XXIII.—The Vanity of Wealth | | 35 |
| — | XXIV.—Life to be Enjoyed | | 35 |
| — | XXV.—The Cure for Care | | 36 |
| — | XXVI.—In Praise of Wine | | 36 |
| — | XXVII.—The same subject | | 37 ​ |
| — | XXVIII.—On his Mistress | | 37 |
| — | XXX.—Cupid taken Prisoner | | 40 |
| — | XXXI.—Pleasing Phrensy | | 40 |
| — | XXXII.—On the Number of his Mistresses | | 41 |
| — | XXXIII.—On a Swallow | | 42 |
| — | XXXIV.—To his Mistress | | 43 |
| — | XXXV.—On a Picture representing Europa | | 44 |
| — | XXXVI.—Life to be Enjoyed | | 44 |
| — | XXXVII.—On the Spring | | 45 |
| — | XXXVIII.—On Himself | | 46 |
| — | XXXIX.—On Himself | | 47 |
| — | XL.—Cupid Wounded | | 48 |
| — | XLI.—The Banquet of Wine | | 49 |
| — | XLII.—On Himself | | 50 |
| — | XLIII.—On the Grasshopper | | 50 |
| — | XLIV.—The Dream | | 52 |
| — | XLV.—Cupid's Darts | | 52 |
| — | XLVI.—The Power of Gold | | 54 |
| — | XLVII.—Young Old Age | | 55 |
| — | XLVIII.—Happy Life | | 55 |
| — | XLIX.—To a Painter | | 56 |
| — | L.—On Bacchus | | 56 |
| — | LI.—On a Medal representing Venus | | 57 |
| — | LII.—On the Vintage | | 59 |
| — | LIII.—On the Rose | | 60 |
| — | LIV.—On Himself | | 62 |
| — | LV.—The Lover's Mark | | 63 |
| — | LVI.—On his Old Age | | 64 |
| — | LVII.—That Moderation enhances Enjoyment | | 64 |
| — | LVIII.—Love in the Heart | | 65 |
| — | LIX.—On Himself | | 65 |
| — | LX.—On the Spring | | 66 |
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