palinode

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XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington

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)

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.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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