a. Also 9 epinikian. [f. EPINICI-ON + -AN.] Celebrating victory.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., VI. xlviii. The Laureate King … Warbles This Epinician Canzon to his Lyre.
1850. Grote, Greece, II. lv. VII. 75, note. Alkibiadês obtained from Euripidês the honour of an epinikian ode, or song of triumph, to celebrate this event.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, v. 120. The Epinikian Ode was the most costly and splendid flower in the victor’s wreath.
