coryphaeus

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The coryphaeus, or leader of the chorus, took part in the dialogue as the representative of the rest, and, occasionally, even several of the number were excited into exclamations by the passion of the piece.

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  • The coryphaeus, or leader of the chorus, took part in the dialogue as the representative of the rest, and, occasionally, even several of the number were excited into exclamations by the passion of the piece. —  Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
  • The two most distinguished names are Herophilus--who, Pliny says, has the honor of being the first physician "who searched into the causes of disease"--and Erasistratus Herophilus, ille anatomicorum coryphaeus, as Vesalius calls him, was a pupil of Praxagoras, and his name is still in everyday use by medical students, attached to the torcular Herophili. —  The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
  • They left their share of the dialogue to the coryphaeus. —  Gryll Grange
  • From that, the constitutionalist school, there has been of late a strong reaction, the highest exponent, nay the very coryphaeus of which is Mr. Carlyle. —  Roman and the Teuton
  • But when the chorus itself formed part of the dialogue, then the leader of the band, the foreman or 'coryphaeus', ascended, as some think, the level summit of the 'thymele' in order to command the stage, or, perhaps, the whole chorus advanced to the front of the orchestra, and thus put themselves in ideal connection, as it were, with the —  Literary Remains, Volume 2
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  1. Latin, leader, from Greek koruphaios, from koruphē, head; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.
 

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