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Greek Books, Athenaeus The Deipnosophists

Athenaeus The Deipnosophists is in Greek Books.

Greek Books, Athenaeus The Deipnosophists Book 13

Greek Books, Athenaeus The Deipnosophists Book 13 Chapter 71

How many festive parties frequent rang

With the fond love of Lesbian Alcæus,

Who sang the praises of the amorous Sappho,

And grieved his Teian1 rival, breathing songs

Such as the nightingale would gladly imitate;

For the divine Anacreon also sought

To win the heart of the sacred poetess,

Chief ornament of all the Lesbian bands;

And so he roved about, now leaving Samos,

Now parting from his own enslaved land,

Parent of vines, to wine-producing Lesbos;

And often he beheld Cape Lectum there,

Across th' Aeolian wave. But greatest of all,

The Attic bee2 oft left its rugged hill,

Singing in tragic choruses divine,

Bacchus and Love

Note 1. Anacreon.

Note 2. Sophocles.

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