Crossword-Solution: MONODIES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

When first I took the art from you, bloated and swoln, poor thing, With turgid gasconading words and heavy dieting, First I reduced and toned her down, and made her slim and neat With wordlets and with exercise and poultices of beet, And next a dose of chatterjuice, distilled from books, I gave her, And monodies she took, with sharp Cephisophon for flavour.

For victory is ours, victory is ours! Ho! Victory! Io! evoŽ! * * * * * FINIS OF "THE ECCLESIAZUSAE" * * * * * Footnotes: [648] A parody of the pompous addresses to inanimate objects so frequent in the prologues and monodies of Euripides.

Let Monodies on Fox regale your crew, And Melville's Mantle [116] prove a Blanket too! One common Lethe waits each hapless Bard, And, peace be with you! 'tis your best reward.

Though his dedications are enough to kill the living, his anticipated monodies, on the other hand, must add considerably to the natural dread of death in such of his patrons as may be liable to common sense or to chronic diseases.

Now it will be shown that familiar address of the audience and the singing of monodies to musical accompaniment are essential features of Plautus' style, and many other implements of the lower types of modern drama are among his favorite devices.