παλινῳδία

A. palinode, recantation, first used of an ode by Stesichorus, in which he recanted his attack upon Helen, Isoc. 10.64, Pl. Ep. 319e, Phdr. 243b.

2. generally, recantation, ib.257a, Cic. Att. 4.5.1, Ph. 1.260, Plu. Alex. 53.