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  • Moreover, the _liturgies_ of the state, as they were called -- unpaid functions such as the trierarchy, choregy, gymnasiarchy, etc., which entailed expense and trouble on the holder of them -- were distributed in some way or other between the members of the three classes, though we do not know how the distribution was made in these early times.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • On the same principle, in the case of the coregia, (29) the gymnasiarchy, and the trierarchy, the fact is recognised that it is the rich man who trains the chorus, and the People for whom the chorus is trained; it is the rich man who is trierarch or gymnasiarch, and the People that profits by their labours.

    Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • In later times the gymnasiarchy comprised the superintendence of the training schools, and the cost of ornamenting the arena.

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

  • On the same principle, in the case of the coregia,29 the gymnasiarchy, and the trierarchy, the fact is recognised that it is the rich man who trains the chorus, and the People for whom the chorus is trained; it is the rich man who is trierarch or gymnasiarch, and the People that profits by their labours. 30 In fact, what the People looks upon as its right is to pocket the money. 31 To sing and run and dance and man the vessels is well enough, but only in order that the

    The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2007

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