OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 60177

scolion

/ˈskəʊlɪɒn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escolión
Any of a genre of songs sung in turn by symposiasts to the accompaniment of a lyre.
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.
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