Anakreon

See how old Anakreon totters with too much wine, his mantle dragging on the ground! One of his sandals clings to him; the other has vanished. He strikes the strings of his lyre and sings of Bathyllos, or of noble Megistes.
Watch over the old man, Bakkhos, lest he fall.
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Leonidas of Tarentum
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