"Dithyrambic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with too lively a sensibility for criticism. Athenaeus, in his tenth book, has given us a lively portrait of this melancholy being. Anaxandrides appeared one day on horseback in the public assembly at Athens, to recite a dithyrambic poem, of which he read a portion. He was a man of fine stature, and wore a purple robe edged with golden fringe. But his complexion was saturnine and melancholy, which was the cause that he never spared ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli |
