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In Poetry. From the Greek iiretcoiiov, which in its original sense denotes those parts of a cla ical drama which are between the entrances, llaoiot, of the chorus; and thence, by analogy, has the signification Which has adhered to the derivative word in modern use,— an Incidental narrative or digre ion in'a poem, more or ■■nuecied with the main plot, but not e ential toils ■•iient. [s. 425]