cordax

She was to perform the celebrated cordax, so passionately adored by the mob.

Satyricon 2007

The cordax was danced everywhere, by rich and poor, by senators 'wives and by street dancers, just as it had been before.

Satyricon 2007

Roman Nuptial Dance, which portrayed the most secret actions of marriage had its origin in the Greek cordax.

Satyricon 2007

The cordax was probably not unlike the French "chalhut," danced in the wayside inns, and it has been preserved in the Spanish "bolero" and the

Satyricon 2007

Probably the most realistic description of the cordax, conventional, of course, is to be found in Merejkovski's "Death of the Gods."

Satyricon 2007

Meursius, Orchest., article Kordax, has collected the majority of passages in the classical writers, bearing upon this subject, but from this disorderly collection it is impossible to arrive at any definite description of the cordax.

Satyricon 2007

Do not be so imbecile as to believe that your garden will be hailed upon, if you have missed dancing the pyrrhic or the cordax.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

She has not sewn on a piece of hanging leather, thick and reddened at the end, to cause laughter among the children; she does not rail at the bald, neither does she dance the cordax; no old man is seen, who, while uttering his lines, batters his questioner with a stick to make his poor jests pass muster.

The Clouds 2000

'Knights,' whom this plagiarist had clumsily furbished up again by adding to the piece an old drunken woman, so that she might dance the cordax.

The Clouds 2000

The cordax was probably not unlike the French "chalhut," danced in the wayside inns, and it has been preserved in the Spanish "bolero" and the Neapolitan "tarantella."

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