"Anacreontic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in their pleasures, and infringes upon the sovereignty of the pedestrian. This vehicle was of outrageous magnificence. The body, borne by two enormous scarlet wheels, was covered with groups of Cupids, and with Anacreontic attributes, such as lyres, tambourines, Pandaean pipes, cooing doves, and hearts pierced with arrows, executed at some remote period by a pencil more remarkable for audacity than correctness of design. The mule harnessed to this gaudy car, had the upper half of his body closely clipped, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
... but doubtfully ascribed to Theocritus. The motif is that of a well-known Anacreontic Ode. The idyl ...
— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang |
