A.dirge, lament, Il.24.721, Sapph.136, Pi.I.8(7).64, Hdt.2.79,85, etc.; θ. οὑμός for me, A.Pr.390; “εἰπεῖν . . θ. θέλω ἐμὸν τὸν αὐτῆς” Id.Ag.1322.
2. complaint, sad strain, h.Pan.18; Τοργόνων οὔλιον θ. Pi.P.12.8; “θρῆνοι καὶ ὀδυρμοί” Pl.R.398d, etc.: pl., lamentations, “θρήνων ᾠδάς” S.El.88 (lyr.), etc.; title of poems by Pindar, Stob.4.39.6, etc. (Distd. fr. ἐπικήδειον by Trypho ap.Ammon. Diff.p.54 V. (cf. Ptol.Asc.p.404H.), ἐπικήδειον τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ κήδει, θ. δὲ ἐν ᾡδήποτε χρόνῳ.)
