Note 1126 — Chapter VIII · DIONYSOS. (continued 2)
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θρίαμβος translated by the Romans into the plain prose of ‘triumph’ seems to have remained to the Greeks a poetical word consecrated to poetical usage. Conon says indeed of Tereus in telling the story of Philomela: τέμνει τὴν αὐτῆς γλῶσσαν δεδιὼς τὸν ἐκ λόγων θρίαμβον (Narrat. XXXI.), but the story and the usage of the word seem borrowed from some poetical source. Sir Richard Jebb kindly draws my attention to the fact that in our earliest literary mention of the thriambos (Kratinos, Koch frg. 36) it is apparently sung by a female singer:
ὅτε σὺ τοὺς καλοὺς θριάμβους ἀναρύτουσ’ ἀπηχθάνου.