Meaning of scolion | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of a genre of songs sung in turn by symposiasts to the accompaniment of a lyre.

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Examples

“Terpander was the inventour of those songs called Scolia, which were sung at feasts.”

“Which Athenæus, proveth against the Calumniations of Demophilus not to be a sacred hymne or Pæan, but a Scolion or Festivall Song.”

“In the following Scolium, Timocreon gives his opinion of riches.”

“The celebrated scolion, or series of scolia, addressed to Harmodius and Aristogiton.”

“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.”

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