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Excerpt from The Odes of Anacreon

It may, however, be asked, what room, since the edition of Broome and Fawkes (whose ver sion, it is probable, will never be excelled), is left for the present attempt? The editor, plead ing only the common property, which all moderns possess in the productions of illust'rious antiquity, is desirous to record the humble tes timony of his admiration of this most facetious genius of gone times.

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Excerpt from The Odes of Anacreon

Anacreon, even from his own remote antiquity, has constantly been admired for his original elegance and the genuine simplicity of his poetry: numerous, indeed, are the testimonies of authors, who have been either his commentators, or the imitators of his unrivalled compositions; nothing of which is needful to be particularized here, having been sufficiently illustrated by essayists, whose laborious commentaries, indeed, speak volumes in behalf of their exhaustless diligence of research; yet, by way of summing up the reputation of this ancient bard, it may be remarked, that he appears nowhere to more advantage, than beside his avowed imitator, Horace.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.