Also 6 pl. exodia. [a. L. exodium, ad. Gr. ἐξόδιον, f. ἐξόδιος of or belonging to an exit, f. ἔξοδος: see EXODUS.]
1. Grk. Drama. The concluding part of a play; the catastrophe.
1842. in Brande. In mod. Dicts.
2. Rom. Drama. A comic interlude originally attached to the Atellanæ, but afterwards given as a separate performance after tragedies.
1600. Holland, Livy, VII. 251. Merrie scoffes and jestes,… which thereupon were afterwards called Exodia, and were inserted commonly in the Atellane Comedies.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., Among the Romans, the exodium … was pretty nearly what farces are with us.
