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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: Did Shakespeare know Greek? -- Appetite came from (Greek) Piptein
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:59:36 +1200
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On 28/08/2024 1:26 a.m., LionelEdwards wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:32:01 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
> 
>>
>> one fav. line (form Shakespeare)  is :
>>
>> DUKE ORSINO
>>              If music be the food of love, play on;
>>              Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
>>              The appetite may sicken, and so die.
>>              That strain again! it had a dying fall:
>>
>> Appetite (has a FALL in it) ???
> 
> The strain (the music) falls off towards the end with
> sweet discord and all that.

The "fall" (ending) is called in more technical musical terminology a 
"cadence", ultimately from Latin cadere 'to fall'.