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proagon
[ proh-ag-ohn, -on, proh-ah-gohn ]
noun
Greek.
plural proagones
- (in ancient Greek comedy) a disputatious exchange, sometimes of a slapstick nature, between the chorus and the characters, or among the characters themselves, usually following the parodos and preceding the agon.
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And Aristophanes, in his Proagon, says— But once seeing him when he was sick in the summer, In order to be sick too himself, eat figs at midday.
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And Aristophanes says, in his Proagon— Wretch that I am, I've eaten tripe, my son: How can I bear to see a roasted snout?
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And there is reason to believe the story given in the Life that when Sophocles in the previous year was introducing his Chorus in the "Proagon," or Preliminary Appearance, he brought them on without the customary garlands in mourning for his great rival's death.
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