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Choragus   Listen
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Choragus  n.  (pl. choragi)  (Gr. Antiq.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.






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"Choragus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Comic establishment)—Ver. 61. "Comico choragio." Literally, "for the choragium of Comedy." The "choragium" was the dress and furniture, or "properties" for the stage, supplied by the "choragus." or keeper ...
— The Captiva and The Mostellaria • Plautus

... yesterday that all my boys were got up for their work in moustaches and side-whiskers of some sort of blacking - I suppose wood-ash. It was a sight of joy to see them return at night, axe on shoulder, feigning to march like soldiers, a choragus with a loud voice singing out, 'March-step! March-step!' in imperfect recollection of ...
— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Choragus" :   antiquity, Hellenic Republic, leader, choragic, Greece



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