单词 | scolion |
释义 | scolionn. Ancient Greek History. A song sung in turn by the guests at a banquet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > song at banquet scolion1603 table song1788 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1257 Terpander was the inventour of those songs called Scolia, which were sung at feasts. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 7 Which Athenæus, proveth against the calumniations of Demophilus not to be a sacred hymne or Pæan, but a Scolion or Festivall Song. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 467 In the following Scolium, Timocreon gives his opinion of riches. 1850 W. Mure Hist. Lang. & Lit. Greece III. 101 The celebrated scolion, or series of scolia, addressed to Harmodius and Aristogiton. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece x. 296 I mean the Scolia, when one guest commenced a sentence in verse, and handed a branch to any other he chose, who was compelled to finish the verse in the cleverest way he could. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1603 |
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