palinode

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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.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

He made a kind of palinode to the “trading justice” later, as other people of his kind have done.

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

She punished him by blindness, and he indited a palinode, explaining that it was not she who went to Troy, but a woman fashioned in her likeness, by Zeus, out of mist and light. 

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

Well, what am I to do? accept the verdict and hold my tongue? pen a palinode like Stesichorus? or will you grant an appeal?

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

Samuel Butler has a palinode, in which he recanted what he said in a previous poem of the Hon. Edward Howard.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham