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‖ priamel|priˈaːməl| Also Priamel. Pl. priameln. [G., ad. L. praeambulum: see preamble n.] A kind of epigrammatic verse cultivated in Germany in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; also applied to a similar literary form in ancient Greek poetry.
1950Chambers's Encycl. XI. 838/2 Rosenplüt, Hans.., recited epigrammatic poems (in a form known as the Priamel) at public ceremonies in honour of towns, princes or noblemen. [1953T. G. Rosenmeyer tr. Snell's Discovery of Mind iii. 48 Sappho makes use of the ‘preamble’, a species of folk poetry emphasizing one thing above the rest.] 1962R. W. B. Burton Pindar's Pythian Odes viii. 106 The last sentence of the epode..is in the form of a Priamel or praeambulum, a series of parallel statements leading by stages to a climax, an extended form of paratactic simile of a type frequent in archaic poetry. 1976Oxf. Compan. German Lit. 683/2 Priamel, a minor poetic form, cultivated in the 15th c. and 16th c., in which, after a preparatory cumulative build-up, a comic or witty pointe forms the final line... The chief exponent of Priameln is Hans Rosenplüt. 1976Classical Q. XXVI. 194 The first line is a priamel, the three terms of which are all applicable to Peleus, who is to be the subject of the myth that follows. |