In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Does anyone happen to know if there is a name for poems which welcome >someone home, like a propemptikon in reverse? And what would be the most >notable classical examples? (I apologise for the fact that this is not a >very Virgilian question, but you're all so learned and so nice I couldn't >but prevail on you). I've never encountered the term, but I suppose it would be hupodektikon, cf. Plutarch, <or. 727 B. translating _cena aduenticia_ as hypodektikon deipnon. As an example, Horace, Odes 3. 14, and by antipation 4. 2. 33-60.
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