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The heavenly bodies moving in harmony

  • 1 chorus

    chŏrus, i, m., = choros [cf. Lidd. and Scott under choros].
    I.
    A dance in a ring, a choral dance, a dance, = chorea:

    chorus et cantus,

    Tib. 1, 7, 44; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 6, 70:

    Nympharum leves chori,

    Hor. C. 1, 1, 31:

    ferre pedem choris,

    id. ib. 2, 12, 17; Tib. 2, 1, 56:

    choros agere,

    Prop. 2, 3, 18:

    agitare,

    Verg. G. 4, 533:

    ducere,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 5; 4, 7, 6:

    exercere,

    Verg. A. 1, 499:

    indicere,

    id. ib. 11, 737:

    instaurare,

    Stat. Achill. 4, 145:

    ostentare,

    id. ib. 2, 148 sq.:

    celebrare,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 594:

    nectere,

    id. ib. 367:

    dare,

    Mart. 4, 44.—
    b.
    The harmonious motions of the heavenly bodies (cf. chorea), Tib. 2, 1, 88. —
    II.
    Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a troop or band of dancers and singers, a chorus, choir:

    saltatores, citharistas, totum denique comissationis Antonianae chorum, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 15; Cat. 63, 30:

    Phoebi chorus,

    Verg. E. 6, 66; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 5, 20; Hor. C. S. 75:

    chorus Dryadum,

    Verg. G. 4, 460:

    Nereidum,

    id. A. 5, 240:

    Idaei chori,

    id. ib. 9, 112:

    Pierius,

    Mart. 12, 3:

    canorus,

    Juv. 11, 163; Ov. M. 3, 685.—Of the chorus in tragedy:

    actoris partes chorus officiumque virile Defendat, etc.,

    Hor. A. P. 193; cf. id. ib. 283; id. Ep. 2, 1, 134; Gell. 19, 10, 12. —
    B.
    The heavenly bodies moving in harmony (cf. supra, I. b.):

    Pleiadum,

    Prop. 3 (4), 5, 36; Hor. C. 4, 14, 21:

    astrorum,

    Stat. Achill. 1, 643.—
    C.
    In gen., a multitude, band, troop, crowd:

    chorus juventutis,

    Cic. Mur. 24, 49:

    philosophorum,

    id. Fin. 1, 8, 26; id. Att. 14, 8, 1; so,

    vatum,

    Hor. C. 4, 3, 15:

    scriptorum,

    id. Ep. 2, 2, 77:

    puellarum,

    id. C. 2, 5, 21:

    (piscium),

    Sen. Agam. 452:

    virtutum,

    Cic. Off. 3, 33, 116; id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13 (hence, Engl. choir, quire; Fr. choeur; Ital. coro).

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > chorus

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