Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
We will not think of themes like these!
It made Anacreon’s song divine:
He served—but served Polycrates—
A tyrant; but our masters then 65
Were still, at least, our countrymen.
XII.
The tyrant of the Cheronese
Was freedom’s best and bravest friend;
That tyrant was Miltiades!