Henri Étienne 1554, editor of an anthology of newly discovered Greek poems, taken out of the famous Codex Anthologia Palatina, provided the western Latin civilization for the first time the source of anacreontic poetry from Ancient Greece. In it, Nr. 14 a catalogue of love affairs, being the example for the register of Leporellos in Don Giovanni. Nr. 33 the so called wet Cupido.
The anacreontic poetry is characterized by intended naivity, simple language, by the standards topics of nature, love and drinking, and a simple metric, the so called anacreontic vers: uu - u - u --.
There is one which is very very easy to understand:
Nr. 29
Χαλεπὸν τὸ μὴ φιλῆσαι,
χαλεπὸν δὲ καὶ φιλῆσαι
χαλεπώτερον δὲ πάντων
ἀποτυγχάνειν φιλοῦντα
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