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... action described by * Xopós is , etymologically , the same word as x @ pos . Hence the Homeric expression λetaívei Xopóv , to level or prepare a place for dancing ; and xopóvde lévai , to join the dance : and hence cities having ...
... action described by * Xopós is , etymologically , the same word as x @ pos . Hence the Homeric expression λetaívei Xopóv , to level or prepare a place for dancing ; and xopóvde lévai , to join the dance : and hence cities having ...
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... action for the wild * Plato , de Leg . iii . 700. B .: Atovúσov yéveσis λεγόμενος . † Herod . i . 23. : τραγικοῦ τρόπου εὑρέτης . • διθύραμβος and impressive movements of the elder Bacchic poetry . After C 2 CHORAL SONG . THE DITHYRAMB .
... action for the wild * Plato , de Leg . iii . 700. B .: Atovúσov yéveσis λεγόμενος . † Herod . i . 23. : τραγικοῦ τρόπου εὑρέτης . • διθύραμβος and impressive movements of the elder Bacchic poetry . After C 2 CHORAL SONG . THE DITHYRAMB .
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... action . A comparison of certain passages of Homer satisfactorily shows us that the leader or exarchus of this chorus held a very marked and important post , and that he not only led off the dance itself , but began the song or ...
... action . A comparison of certain passages of Homer satisfactorily shows us that the leader or exarchus of this chorus held a very marked and important post , and that he not only led off the dance itself , but began the song or ...
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... action and feeling than its pre- decessor , of which it was , in fact , a very simple variation . Like the old hexameters , these trochaic and iambic verses were written for recitation ; and we are told by Athenæus † that they were ...
... action and feeling than its pre- decessor , of which it was , in fact , a very simple variation . Like the old hexameters , these trochaic and iambic verses were written for recitation ; and we are told by Athenæus † that they were ...
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... action of stage- players . " That the verses of the gnomic poets were the in- termediate step between the school of Hesiod and of the tragedians themselves , and afforded a model to the iambic writers of the succeeding age , is a fact ...
... action of stage- players . " That the verses of the gnomic poets were the in- termediate step between the school of Hesiod and of the tragedians themselves , and afforded a model to the iambic writers of the succeeding age , is a fact ...
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