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Anacreon · J. M. Edmonds (Loeb Classical Library, 1924)
[Image: ]Anacreon depicted singing and playing his lyre — Roman copy, second century AD, Copenhagen Hephaestion on PoemsA poem is known as ‘common in form’ when it is made up of two ‘systems’ or stanzas like the first poem of Anacreon: To thee I kneel, [lit. ‘clasp thy knees in supplication’] thou shooter of deer, flaxen-haired child of Zeus, Artemis queen of wild beasts, who now doubtless lookest down rejoicing beside the eddies of Lethaeus upon a city of valiant hearts; for thou art shepherd to no savage flock of men. [now: dedicatory of a new temple or statue of Artemis? city: Ionian Magnesia; the poem is prob. complete; see however Kehrhahn Berm. 1914] For although according to the edition now in use the strophe has eight lines and the poem consists of a single strophe, this strophe can also be separated into a three-group and a five-group, so that a Pherecratic ends both the …
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