kordax

• The kordax was an ancient dance of the old comedy, with indecent gestures, in which the human figure was caricatured according to all the deformations which it underwent by vice or sensuality. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• The Greek account of the third century B.C. says that he taught the Hindus to dance the kordax, but at this time there appears to have been no such phallic worship in his honor as is recorded in the pseudo-epic. —  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
• At the sight of him singing and dancing the kordax, they gave up the business in hand to accompany his movements with shouts and hand-clapping, as is often done under such circumstances. —  Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus
• But he calls a trochee, which occupies the same time as a choreus, [Greek: kordax], because its contracted and brief character is devoid of dignity. —  The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
• Listening to the sweet notes flood forth, Phye marveled that she didn’t hear a whole band of men—and loose women, too—following, singing to his tune and stomping out the rhythms of the kordax or some other lascivious dance As far as her ears could tell, the fluteplayer was alone. —  Counting Up, Counting Down

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