This palinode is the still extant oration on the Provinces to be assigned to the consuls of 699.
The song of the maidens as they watch by their dying mistress, palinode and dirge in one, is striking in the blending of diverse modes: Cupid, pardon what is past, And forgive our sins at last!
In the 'May' we return to the four-beat accentual measure, this time applied to a discussion by the herdsmen Palinode and Piers of the lawfulness of Sunday sports and the corruption of the clergy.
The beginning of Stesichorus's palinodehas been preserved.
The beginning of Stesichoruses palinode has been preserved.
His conscious has been awakened, and like Stesichorus when he had reviled the lovely Helen he will sing a palinode for having blasphemed the majesty of love.
Socrates or Archilochus would soon have to sing a palinode for the injustice done to lovely Helen, or some misfortune worse than blindness might be fall them.
And these answer to the palinode (recantation) which he promises in my name in his forged preface.
As if it were any man's business to sing a palinode for another's error; or as if anything that is said in that work of mine under any character whatever, were my own opinion.
I no longer hear the voice of prudence seducing me, as it did a few days since, to a palinode in complicity with a romantic morning of white mist.
To me this reason is utterly insufficient; and I contend, moreover, that sneers at the Sophists would be quite out of place in a speech, such as the palinode of Sokrates about Eros.
By a sudden revulsion of feeling, Sokrates becomes ashamed of having thus slandered the divine Eros, and proceeds to deliver a counter-panegyric or palinode upon that God.
