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Headword:
*xoro/s
Adler number: chi,410
Translated headword: chorus, orchestra
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] both the choral dancers and the place [where they perform].
Homer [says]: "in [it] he decorated a dancing-floor". [That is, a place] in which the body of choral dancers [would perform].[1]
And [there is] a saying: "a tragic chorus [is drawn] from 15 persons, a comic chorus from 24 persons."[2]
*xoro/s: kai\ oi( xoreutai/, kai\ o( to/pos. *(/omhros: e)n de\ xoro\n poi/killen. e)n w(=| to\ su/sthma tw=n xoreutw=n. kai\ paroimi/a: xoro\s tragiko\s e)c ie# prosw/pwn, xoro\s kwmiko\s e)c kd# prosw/pwn.
Notes:
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 18.590 (Hephaestus decorates a shield for Achilles), and
scholia on this verse.
[2] Scholion on
Aristophanes,
Knights 589. (Not proverbial, despite this billing.)
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 July 2003@02:17:16.
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