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/ˈskəʊlɪɒn/ · noun
(Greek antiquities) Any of a genre of songs sung in turn by symposiasts to the accompaniment of a lyre..
Terpander was the inventour of those songs called Scolia, which were sung at feasts.
Which Athenæus, proveth against the Calumniations of Demophilus not to be a sacred hymne or Pæan, but a Scolion or Festivall Song.
In the following Scolium, Timocreon gives his opinion of riches.
The celebrated scolion, or series of scolia, addressed to Harmodius and Aristogiton.
I mean the Scolia, when one guest commenced a sentence in verse, and handed a branch to any other he chose, who was compelled to finish the verse in the cleverest way he could.
Use scolion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scolion means (Greek antiquities) Any of a genre of songs sung in turn by symposiasts to the accompaniment of a lyre..
Common synonyms include banquet song.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Terpander was the inventour of those songs called Scolia, which were sung at feasts.
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