Two epigrams on Anacreon

Julianus, Prefect of Egypt, translated by Matthew Stokdyk

Greek Anthology 7.32

πολλάκι μὲν τόδ᾿ ἄεισα, καὶ ἐκ τύμβου δὲ βοήσω·
“πίνετε, πρὶν ταύτην ἀμφιβάλησθε κόνιν.”

Many times I sang it,
and I will cry out again from my tomb:
“Drink up! before you are covered with dust.”

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Greek Anthology 7.33

Α: πολλὰ πιὼν τέθνηκας, Ἀνάκρεον. Β: ἀλλὰ τρυφήσας:
καὶ σὺ δὲ μὴ πίνων ἵξεαι εἰς Ἀΐδην.

“You have drunk yourself to death, Anacreon.”
“But I lived luxuriously—
and you who do not drink will come down to Hades, too.”