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grbs-16358	Cairns, Francis	The Terms komos and paraclausithyron	2020	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3615	175	68	By the repeated misapplications of paraclausithyron Copley perpetuated a terminological muddle which has persisted widely to this day: many scholars employ komos and paraclausithyron as if they are synonyms,7 and others argue that paraclausithyron, not komos, is the appropriate term for poems involving the excluded lover.8 This is all the more regrettable given that Georg Luck, in his (German-language!) Insistence on the distinction between komos and paraclausithyron in the con- text of the excluded lover is not pedantry: komos may involve a whole sequence of actions on the part of the komast, including the performance of a song, whereas paraclausithyron (if it is a gen- uine Greek term: see §2) is the komast’s song, and nothing more; cf.	cache/grbs-16358.pdf	txt/grbs-16358.txt