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date: 06 December 2023

anabolēlocked

anabolēlocked

  • Cecil Maurice Bowra,
  • Eveline Krummen
  •  and Christopher Pelling

Extract

Anabolē, musical term (see music), used of the striking-up of a musical instrument (esp. of the lyre, Od. 1. 155, 8. 266: ἀνεβάλλετο), a non-vocal prelude serving as a signal to dancers and singers (Pind. Pyth. 1. 4). In the *dithyramb of the 5th cent. bce it apparently denotes the elaborate astrophic lyric preludes introduced by *Melanippides (2); Aristophanes Aves 1385 satirizes their airy, highflown language.

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