She was their graceful choragus; or rather, she, like some slim daughter of the. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Occasionally a copper fell to them, in return for which the choragus exclaimed 'Gord bless yer!'. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
He put up a tablet in memory of his success bearing the words: Themistokles of Phrearri was choragus, Phrynichus wrote the play. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference
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.). From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference
Although there was a law in force at Athens at that period, which forbade foreigners to appear in a chorus, and imposed a fine of one thousand drachmas upon the choragus who allowed them to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference
A chorus of British bards, and a principal Druid for choragus. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
A blind old choragus, have been handed down to the posterity of our affectionate friends. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Star-choragus of the night!. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Marston] Reference
So she, choragus, calls the tune. From Wordnik.com. [Helen Redeemed and Other Poems] Reference
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