Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions.

... thighs appear to be continuously alighting and pausing in mid-air, detached from their dithyrambic owners, like luminous birds on the wing.

The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten.

Nevertheless, if one has time and, still more, the patience to search whole acres of dithyrambic prose, he shall have his reward.

1775, Anonymous, review of the West translation of Pindar's Olympic Odes, in The Critical Review, volume 40, page 451,
As we have no remains of the dithyrambics of the ancients, we cannot exactly ascertain the measure.

Dithyrambic

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