Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Two Types of Wine-Drinkers
Anacreon, elegaic fragment 2 (tr. David A. Campbell):
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I do not like the man who while drinking his wine beside the full mixing-bowl talks of strife and tearful war: I like him who by mingling the splendid gifts of the Muses and Aphrodite remembers the loveliness of the feast.
οὐ φιλέω ὃς κρητῆρι παρὰ πλέῳ οἰνοποτάζων
νείκεα καὶ πόλεμον δακρυόεντα λέγει,
ἀλλ᾿ ὅστις Μουσέων τε καὶ ἀγλαὰ δῶρ᾿ Ἀφροδίτης
συμμίσγων ἐρατῆς μνήσκεται εὐφροσύνης.
