dithyrambics

Then, under the conduct of Manduce, and singing I do not know what dithyrambics, crepalocomes, and epenons, opening their baskets and pots, they offered their god:

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Then, under the conduct of Manduce, and singing I do not know what dithyrambics, crepalocomes, and epenons, opening their baskets and pots, they offered their god:

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

"I admire," said Aristodemus, "Homer for his epic poetry, Melanippides for his dithyrambics, Sophocles for tragedy, Polycletes for statuary, and Xeuxis for painting."

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Not only did she know all the tales, but in some sort she lived in the memory of the heroic and religious traditions sung in the solemn dithyrambics of the Edda, and met with in every page of the Islandic sagas.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

When we are tired trying to explain that, we fall back into dithyrambics on the

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

It's the difference between poetry and horse-power, dithyrambics and dynamos, Keats and Kipling!

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

She heard a negro shouting dithyrambics about some religion she could never make out.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

The priest was fuddled, hiccuping in his amorous dithyrambics as he paddled with the girl's hand.

The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

The hour has therefore arrived, calmly to consider a movement which has imposed itself upon the history of French art from 1860 to 1900 with extreme energy, to leave dithyrambics as well as polemics, and to speak of it with a view to exactness.

The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

In those times and among those men, Horace with his dithyrambics affected not only the spirit but the will, uniting the subtle suggestion of his verses to all the other incentives and solicitations that on every side were persuading men to drink.

Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906