The precentor Damoteles, Bacchus, exalts

Your tripod, and, sweetest of deities, you.

He was champion of men, if his boyhood had faults;

And he ever loved honour and seemliness too.

XIII.

For a Statue of Anacreon.

This statue, stranger, scan with earnest gaze;

And, home returning, say "I have beheld

Anacreon, in Teos; him whose lays