[a. Fr. exode, ad. late L. exodium: see EXODIUM.] a. in the Gr. drama = EXODIUM 1; hence gen. the ending, catastrophe of a play; b. in the Roman drama = EXODIUM 2.
a. 1684. Earl Roscom., Wks. (1753), 176. The Romans had … three plays acted, one after another, on the same subject; the first a real Tragedy; the second the Attellane; the third a Satyr or Exode, a kind of Farce of one act.
1759. W. Mason, Caractacus, Argt. in Poems (1805), The Exode, or Catastrophe, is prepared by the coming of Arviragus the King’s son.
1833. Blackw. Mag., XXXIV. 721. Hindu writers are in general successful in maintaining the character of their exode.
