Definition of Scolion

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

Exact synonyms: Banquet Song
Generic synonyms: Song, Vocal

Definition of Scolion

1. skolion [n SCOLIA or SCOLIONS] - See also: skolion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scolion

scolecite
scolecites
scolecoid
scolecology
scolecomorpha
scolex
scolexes
scolia
scolices
scolie
scolies
scoliokyphosis
scolioma
scoliomas
scoliometer
scolion (current term)
scolioses
scoliotic
scoliotic pelvis
scoliotone
scolithi
scolithus
scollop
scolloped
scolloping
scollops
scolopacid
scolopacids
scolopacine

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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