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δ1030Διθύραμβοςdithyramb… (see Bibliography). Our largest fragments are by the well-known poets Bacchylides (beta 59: see web address 1, and click on the right arrow to continue through the surviving fragments) and Pindar (pi 1617); but …Matched in noteshighshort

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dithyramb

[Meaning] a hymn to Dionysus. "Apollonius practised a form of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic expressions."

Διθύραμβος· ὕμνος εἰς Διόνυσον. ὁ δὲ Ἀπολλώνιος λόγων ἰδέαν ἐπήσκει οὐ τὴν διθυραμβώδη καὶ φλεγμαίνουσαν ποιητικοῖς ὀνόμασι.