The benefactor of a chorus was called a choregus, and generally was a wealthy man who paid a teacher and trainer to drill the chorus. ❋ Unknown (2009)
*] The five public judges announce their decision: an ivy wreath to the victorious poet; to his "choregus" (the rich man who has provided his chorus and who shares his glory) the right to set up a monumnet in honor of the victory. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
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 choregus. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
At Lacedaemon the choregus himself played on the flute; and it was so common at ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)
Athens that almost every freeman understood it, as is evident from the tablet which Thrasippus dedicated when he was choregus; but afterwards they rejected it as dangerous; having become better judges of what tended to promote virtue and what did not. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)
At Athens the the leitourgia was the public service performed by the wealthier citizens at their own expense, such as the office of gymnasiarch, who superintended the gymnasium, that of choregus, who paid the singers of a chorus in the theatre, that of the hestiator, who gave a banquet to his tribe, of the trierarchus, who provided a warship for the state. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Such burdens as the duties of choregus, trierarch, &c., might be voluntarily undertaken, as they were by ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1912)
The choregus paid the expenses of a chorus at the Dionysiac (and certain other) festivals. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1912)
Demosthenes was choregus in 348, and trierarch in 363, 359, and 357. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1912)
'Twas Demoteles the choregus, O Dionysus, who dedicated this tripod, and this statue of thee, the dearest of the blessed gods. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (1878)
-- "That's a good idea, sir, -- and I have a chorus, and a choregus too, already in my eye." ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
By turns he is hestiator, and pays the expense of the sacred repast of his tribe; and choregus, when he supports a chorus for the religious festivals. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One, though serving as choregus and trierarch, [n] felt it his duty voluntarily to incur that further expense [to ransom the prisoners] rather than see any of his fellow citizens suffering misfortune for want of means; the other, so far from rescuing any of those who were already in captivity, joined in bringing a whole district, and more than 10,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry with them, the forces of the actual allies of his country, into captivity to ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1912)
§ 230. _choregus and trierarch_: see Introd. to Speech on Naval Boards, and n. on Philippic I. § 36. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1912)
§ 8. _public service_: i.e. as trierarch or choregus or gymnasiarch, &c. See n. on Phil. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1912)
'gentlefolk' in the book are the merest marionettes, but there are descriptive passages of first-rate vigour, and the voice of wisdom is heard from the lips of an early Greek choregus in the figure of an old parson called Mr. Wyvern. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Because in the former case every thing is ordered by law, and each of you knows long before-hand, who is the choir-master [Footnote: The choregus, or choir-master, of each tribe, had to defray the expense of the choruses, whether dramatic, lyric, or musical, which formed part of the entertainment on solemn occasions. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1837)
[Footnote: The gymnasiarch, like the choregus, had a burden imposed on him by his tribe, to make certain provisions for the gymnasium, public place or school of exercise. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1837)
