| 词条 | invocation |
| 释义 | invocation prosody a convention of classical literature and of epics (epic) in particular, in which an appeal for aid (especially for inspiration) is made to a muse or deity, usually at or near the beginning of the work. Homer's Odyssey, for instance, begins Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel. Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of, many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea, struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions. The word is from the Latin invocatio, meaning “to summon” or “ to call upon.” |
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