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  • noun Plural form of dithyramb.

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Examples

  • Alexandrians among his "dithyrambs" -- as appears not only from its place in our MS., but also from the allusion of Servius (on _Aen_. vi.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • The Google story doesn't need any more dithyrambs, but Verizon certainly deserves some credit for its fiber to the home initiatives and solid mobile infrastructure.

    Tony Greenberg: The Google/Verizon Walled Garden Plan: No Substantive Impact on Net Neutrality 2010

  • The Google story doesn't need any more dithyrambs, but Verizon certainly deserves some credit for its fiber to the home initiatives and solid mobile infrastructure.

    Tony Greenberg: The Google/Verizon Walled Garden Plan: No Substantive Impact on Net Neutrality 2010

  • M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his dithyrambs.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Some poetry (comedy and tragedy are mentioned) proceed wholly by imitation, another wholly by simple narration (dithyrambs are mentioned as examples); and epic poetry combines the two forms of narrative.

    Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008

  • The heat of her language communicated itself to the brain, and the dithyrambs on her lips were spoken out of the abundance of her heart.

    Two Poets 2007

  • The heat of her language communicated itself to the brain, and the dithyrambs on her lips were spoken out of the abundance of her heart.

    Two Poets 2007

  • The speech may be compared with that speech of Socrates in the Phaedrus in which he describes himself as talking dithyrambs.

    The Symposium 2006

  • They were men of genius, but they had no perception of what is just and lawful in music; raging like Bacchanals and possessed with inordinate delights — mingling lamentations with hymns, and paeans with dithyrambs; imitating the sounds of the flute on the lyre, and making one general confusion; ignorantly affirming that music has no truth, and, whether good or bad, can only be judged of rightly by the pleasure of the hearer.

    Laws 2006

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