He is not, in any sense, one of the Anacreontic singers of the pleasures of wine, of whom Horace is the typical example in ancient times.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
There was a loud tapping and clinking of glasses, and then the Colonel trolled forth in a sweet tenor voice an Anacreontic song about women, and sparkling wine, and eyes divine, and flowing bowls, and joyous souls, and ladies bright, as dark as night, and ladies rare, as bright as fair, and so on, and so on, the whole being listened to with the deepest attention and the greatest of satisfaction by a body of gentlemen whose thoughts at the moment, if not set upon women and wine, certainly were upon wine and women.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
Anacreon talks to the point so well that you must forgive him, I think, for being Anacreontic, and take from his hands what is not defiled.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon