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Sentence Examples
Lyric poetry included dithyrambs, encomia, paeans, and hymns.
Examples from Classical Literature
Casaubon that evening, or on his dithyrambs about Dorothea's charm, in all which Will joined, but with a difference.
Not the kinds of dithyrambs we find in his Cahiers articles, where critics held forth mainly about films they loved.
He died amid prosperity and dithyrambs from all the poets he'd brought to live in Athens, a thousand aliens singing Pindar and Bacchylides.
The laureate part doesn't sound very democratic either, conjuring images of Roman court flatterers, bewigged monarchs who commission dithyrambs for royal hymens.