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Definition of Scolion
1. Noun. A song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet.
Definition of Scolion
1. skolion [n SCOLIA or SCOLIONS] - See also: skolion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scolion
Literary usage of Scolion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"... glory Of Greece was laid; this witness gives Leonidas the Spartan, in whose
story A wreath of famous virtue ever lives. T FRAGMENT OF A scolion C:Ea ..."
2. The Comedies of Aristophanes by Aristophanes, W. J. Hickie (1853)
"503, E. Being of a warlike cast, it would be unsuited for a festive entertainment,
and would be a malapropos substitute for ehe peaceful scolion of ..."
3. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"But this term was not applied to all drinking songs. The scolion was a ... >q.
where the scolion in caught up from one by the other. ..."
4. Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete Collection of the Surviving Passages from the by George Stanley Farnell (1891)
"The main feature and difficulty of the scolion, as thus described, was that each
singer was bound to follow his predecessor not only in subject but in metre ..."
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