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  • Choregeo is "to give a sufficiency of any thing;" and choregia and choregema are dimensum, "a sufficiency of provision."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • What the theory designed as the munificence of patriotism, became in practice but a showy engine of corruption; and men vied with each other in the choregia or the trierarchy, not so much for the sake of service done to the state, as in the hope of influence acquired over the people.

    Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • 29 “The duties of the choregia consisted in finding maintenance and instruction for the chorus” (in tragedy, usually of fifteen persons) “as long as they were in training; and in providing the dresses and equipments for the performance.” —

    The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2007

  • [819] choregia.cf. the use of the cognate verb in 1 Pet. iv.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

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