Excerpt from The Works of Anacreon: Translated Into English Verse; With Notes Explanatory and Poetical F ancies. The Truth is. There is no Exact nefs in the Chronology of the Greeks for the Times preceding the Rife of the Pedian Em pire; it was not till long after, that they be gan to reckon by Olympiads Whence it is that we meet with (0 much Uncertainty and Contradie'tion in their Account of things be fore that Period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.