dithyrambs in English
noun
1
a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus.
His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus.
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1. M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his dithyrambs.
2. The same thing holds good of Dithyrambs and Nomes; here too one may portray different types, as Timotheus and Philoxenus differed in representing their Cyclopes.The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in …