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Byzantine music
(Encyclopedia) Byzantine music, the music of the Byzantine Empire composed to Greek texts as ceremonial, festival, or church music. Long thought to be only a further development of ancient Greek…Brewer's: Carpe Diem
Enjoy yourself while you have the opportunity. Seize the present day. (Horace: 1 Odes, xi. 8.) “Dum vivimus, vivamus.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Nemean Games
(The). One of the four great national festivals of Greece, celebrated at nemea, in Argolis, every alternate year, the first and third of each Olympiad. The victor's reward was at first a…Brewer's: Orinda
called the “Incomparable,” was Mrs. Katherine Philipps, who lived in the reign of Charles II., and died of small-pox. Her praises were sung by Cowley, Dryden, and others. (See Dryden's Ode…Brewer's: Hafiz
The great Persian lyrist, called the “Persian Anacreon” (fourteenth century). His odes are called ghazels, and are both sweet and graceful. The word hafiz (retainer) is a degree given to…Brewer's: Dulce est Desipere in Loco
It is delightful to play the fool occasionally; it is nice to throw aside one's dignity and relax at the proper time. (Horace: 4 Odes, xii. 28.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…Brewer's: Moore
(Thomas), called “Anacreon Moore,” because the character of his poetry resembles that of Anacreon, the Greek poet of love and wine. He also translated Anacreon's Odes. (1779-1852.)…Brewer's: Pindaric Verse
Irregular verse; a poem of various metres, but of lofty style, in imitation of the odes of Pindar. Alexander's Feast, by Dryden, is the best specimen in English. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Pyrrha
Sæculum Pyrrhæ. The Flood. Pyrrha was the wife of Deucalion (Horace: 1 Odes, ii. 6). So much rain has fallen, it looks as if the days of Pyrrha were about to return. Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: Sappho of Toulouse
Clémence Isaure (2 syl.), a wealthy lady of Toulouse, who instituted in 1490 the “Jeux Floraux,” and left funds to defray their annual expenses. She composed a beautiful Ode to Spring. (…Trending
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