oft repeated saying; refrain; ditty/little song
Latin word, found 14 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, Letters to his Friends 11.20.2: … tione periculi sperare eos te pertimefacto, adulescente impulso, posse magna consequi praemia, et totam istam cantilenam ex hoc pendere ut quam plurimum lucri faciant. neque tamen non te cautum esse volo et insidias vitantem; nihi …
Petronius, Satyricon (fragments) 21: dulces composuisse cantilenas.
Terence, Phormio 3.2.495b: Cantilenam eandem canis.
All forms of cantilena