palinode
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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.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
It was this which prompted that rather grandiose but still admirable palinode of Christopher North, in August 1834,—"the Animosities are mortal: but the Humanities live for ever,"—an apology which naturally enough pleased Hunt very much.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
That high praise was once well-deserved, and was cordially given: but since, alas! according to my lights I have seen fit more than once to "palinode."
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
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 F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
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 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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