ETYMOLOGY
from Greek θρῆνος (funeral lament)
EXAMPLE
“…Threnetic odes are also ascribed to Sappho, among which a lament of Adonis is alluded to; but these poems are not classed under any separate head; and in an extant passage, she plainly intimates that his gloomier style of composition was little to her taste…”
From: A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece
By William Mure, Volume III, 1850
Biography of Lyric Poets. Sappho, 600 B.C.
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