διθύραμβος

dithyrambos

dithyramb

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Poetics 3
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Chapter 2 1448a1–18

1448a14
Chapter 4 1448b4–1449a31

1449a11
Chapter 22 1458a18–1459a16

1459a9
Politics 2
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Book VIII 2
Chapter 7 1341b15–1342b34

1342b7
1342b10
Rhetoric 2
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Book III 2
Chapter 9 1409a22–1410b5

1409a25

Chapter 14 1414b19–1416a3

1415a10

Dictionary (LSJ)

διθύραμβος [ῠ], ὁ, metapl. acc. sg. διθύραμβα Pi. Fr. 86:—Α. dithyramb, Archil. 77, Epich. 132, Hdt. 1.23, Pi. O. 13.19, Pherecr. 145.11, Pl. Lg. 700b, Arist. Pol. 1342b7, Pr. 918b18, etc.; μιξοβόας δ. A. Fr. 355: metaph. of bombastic language, τοσουτονὶ δ. ᾄσας Pl. Hp.Ma. 292c; οὐκέτι πόρρω διθυράμβων φθέγγομαι Id. Phdr. 238d. II. a name of Dionysus, E. Ba. 526 (lyr.), Philod.Scarph. 1:—hence Δῐθυραμβογενής, AP 9.524. (Pi. is said to have written it λῡθίραμβος (Fr. 85) —as if from λῦθι ῥάμμα, the cry of Bacchus when sewn up in his fatherʼs thigh.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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