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Parody

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Father of Parody. Hippoʹnax of Ephesus, The word parody means an ode which perverts the meaning of another ode. (Greek, para õdē.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Parmenianists
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