[Meaning] a song drunk with wine. Dicaearchus[1] in the [treatise] On Musical Contests says that there are three genres of songs: one kind sung by everyone one by one, sequentially; another sung by the most talented, as it happened, in order, which was called crooked (skolio/n) due to its order [sc. of singers].[2] But Aristoxenos and Phyllis the musician[3] [say] that in weddings they positioned many couches around a single table, and holding myrtle branches one after the other in turn they used to sing their sentiments and erotic harmonies. The round [of singing] was crooked, due to the placement of the couches.
Skolion: Tyrannion wrote a commentary on the meter of the skolion, a task assigned to him by Gaius Caesar.[4]