Also in Lat. form threnus. [a. Gr. θρῆνος, L. thrēnus.] = THRENE, THRENODY.
1601. Shaks., Phœnix & Turtle (heading), Threnos.
1840. trans. C. O. Müller’s Hist. Lit. Greece, iii. § 5. 21. These singers of the threnos were at the burial of Achilles represented by the Muses themselves, who sang the lament.
1850. Mure, Hist. Lang. & Lit. Greece, III. 97. The Threnus of Homer’s bards … was probably in dactylic measure.
1903. Speaker, 28 Feb., 539/1. A lad … whose short life may be likened to a threnos.
