choragus
Americannoun
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(in ancient Greece)
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the leader of a dramatic chorus.
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a person who undertook the expense of providing for such a chorus.
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any conductor of an entertainment or festival.
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the leader of a chorus
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a sponsor of a chorus
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a conductor of a festival
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Origin of choragus
1620–30; < Latin < Greek chorāgós, dialectal variant of chorēgós, equivalent to chor ( ós ) chorus + -ēgos, combining form of ágein to lead
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At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next he may be slanging to beat Broadway.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore go and sacrifice the sheep in the house, cut off the legs and bring them here; thus the carcase will be saved for the choragus.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
For I should be appointed as choragus for tragedies and should call on him to exchange with me, he would prefer to be choragus ten times rather than exchange once with me.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
At such times the choragus, or leader of the chorus, took his station on the top of the thymele, to see what was passing on the stage, and to converse with the characters there present.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
She was their graceful choragus; or rather, she, like some slim daughter of the Greeks—Iphigenia or another—voiced the protagonist's part; and they wailed after her, a chorus of elders.
From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Or, to take another class of cases: adjudication has to be made between the choragi for the Dionysia, the Thargelia, the Panathenaea, year after year.
From Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Dakyns, Henry Graham
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