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adj. - Of or in the manner of a statement or piece of writing in an exalted impassioned style usually in praise of something

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  • No, only the souls of two or three dithyrambic poets.
  • TRYGAEUS No, only the souls of two or three dithyrambic poets.
  • Sophocles, and Aeschylus, and some dithyrambic odes, composed by
  • This kind of speech, resembling in a way the dithyrambic passages in the Old
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