Ἀλαλαλαὶ ἰὴ παίων

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1. Paian, Paieon, or Paion is a title of Apollo as the god of healing; various forms of this exclamation occur as refrains in choral songs addressed to Apollo or Artemis; cf. generally pi 836, pi 837, pi 838, pi 841, pi 842. See also alpha 1059, alpha 1062.
1. 1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 1763 (web address 1), where the headword phrase occurs. Compare Lysistrata 1291. Similar refrains occur in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 517; Aeschylus, Agamemnon 146; Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 154; Aristophanes, Acharnians 1212. ↩