Anacreon, An olde poet, which soong to the harpe: hee was borne in the towne of Ionia, called Teum. This man being aged, was strangled with the kernell of a teysin, and so dyed.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ănācrĕōn, ontis, m., = *)anakre/wn, a distinguished lyric poet of Teos, who fl. 540 B.C., Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 71; Hor. C. 4, 9, 9; id. Epod. 14, 10 al.—Hence, Ănācrĕōntēus, a, um, adj., Diom. p. 512 P.; Ănācrĕōn-tĭus, a, um, adj., Quint. 9, 4, 78; Gell. 19, 9; and Ănācrĕōntĭcus, a, um, adj., Fulg. Myth. 1.