choragus

• In place of this ode the revised text contains a long 'Coro delle Driadi,' with two speeches in terza rima by the choragus, announcing and lamenting the death of Euridice, who as she fled from Aristeo has been stung in the foot by a serpent. —  Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England
• 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. —  Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
• Themistocles was the choragus to a tragedy by Phrynichus. —  Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
• Occasionally a copper fell to them, in return for which the choragus exclaimed 'Gord bless yer!' —  Thyrza
• Chapter VII: the choragus Lysicrates [choraegus] —  A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised

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