For a Statue of Anacreon
by: Theocritus (3rd century B.C.)
translated by C. S. Calverley
This statue, stranger, scan with earnest gaze;
And, home returning, say "I have beheld
Anacreon, in Teos; him whose lays
Were all unmatched among our sires of eld."
Say further: "Youth and beauty pleased him best;"
And all the man will fairly stand expressed.
