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scolion

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈskəʊlɪɒn/Part of speech nounSorted cilnoosStarts with SEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet

Word origin

From Ancient Greek σκόλῐον (skólĭon).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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