Scolion

Terpander was the inventour of those songs called Scolia, which were sung at feasts.

Which Athenæus, proveth against the Calumniations of Demophilus not to be a sacred hymne or Pæan, but a Scolion or Festivall Song.

In the following Scolium, Timocreon gives his opinion of riches.

The celebrated scolion, or series of scolia, addressed to Harmodius and Aristogiton.

I mean the Scolia, when one guest commenced a sentence in verse, and handed a branch to any other he chose, who was compelled to finish the verse in the cleverest way he could.