[1760] You are always the same, whether playing the "choragus" or not. ❋ Unknown (1895)
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, ❋ Unknown (2005)
The choragus has fallen on his knees, and dips his head two or three times in an excavation in the ground, and a choir, also on their knees, repeat in dolorous tones the last words of a slow and solemn refrain. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
At Lacedaemon there was a choragus who led the chorus with a flute, and at Athens the instrument became so popular that most freemen could play upon it. ❋ Aristotle (2002)
She was their graceful choragus; or rather, she, like some slim daughter of the ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
He pursues the rest; and the games are alike, except that in "catch" he who is to be made "it" must be caught and held by him who is "it," whereas in "tag" a touch is sufficient to transfer the responsibility, and inaugurate the new choragus. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
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. ❋ 440? BC-380 BC Lysias (N/A)
In _Cur. _ 462 ff. the _choragus_ interpolates a recital composed of topical allusions to the manners of different neighborhoods of Rome. ❋ Wilton Wallace Blanck�� (1916)
Demosthenes, you remember, when he was providing for a certain little company of chorus dancers and musicians, requested to be styled no longer Demosthenes, but "choragus." ❋ Unknown (1895)
Then one, playing choragus, would break into a howl, and there would be a long anthem of howls until the forest rang with the terror; but the haste, the panting and the padding of feet were the most dreadful, because incessant; the thrust head would be whelmed, the sharp voice drowned in howls; the grey tide and the lapping of it never stopped. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
The graceful monument still visible in Athens, erected by the choragus Lysicrates in token of his victory in the choral competitions, belongs to this period (330 B.C.). ❋ Unknown (1890)
Occasionally a copper fell to them, in return for which the choragus exclaimed 'Gord bless yer!' ❋ George Gissing (1880)
The connecting passages are full of dramatic vivacity; in these the "Host," Master Harry Bailly, acts as a most efficient choragus, but the other pilgrims are not silent, and in the ❋ Adolphus William Ward (1880)
The choragus who gave the best musical entertainment received a tripod as his reward, and it was the custom to build a monument upon which to place the tripod, so that it should be a lasting honor to the choragus and his family. ❋ Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1875)
This monument was erected B.C. 334, when Lysicrates was _choragus_ -- that is, when it was his office to provide the chorus for the plays represented at Athens. ❋ Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1875)
Aristeides placed in the temple of Dionysus tripods dedicated to the god by a victorious chorus, which even in my own time are still to be seen, and which bear the inscription: "The tribe Antiochis won the prize; Aristeides was choragus; Archestratus taught the chorus." ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)
He put up a tablet in memory of his success bearing the words: Themistokles of Phrearri was choragus, Phrynichus wrote the play, ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)
Once when the Athenians were witnessing a new play, the actor who was to play the part of the king demanded from the choragus a large troop of richly-attired attendants, and, as he did not obtain them, refused to appear upon the stage, and kept the audience waiting: At last Melanthius, the choragus, shoved him on to the stage, exclaiming. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)
The statue of Pallas, erected by him in the Acropolis, is standing at this day, although it has lost the gold with which it was formerly adorned, and also the building which supports the choragic tripods in the temple of Dionysus, for he often gained a victory when choragus, and never was vanquished. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)