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χοραγός?

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: choragos

Principal Part: χοραγός χοραγοῦ

Structure: χοραγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Chorus leader, who could enter the story as a character able to interact with the characters of a play.
  2. Generally, the leader of a train or band.
  3. In Athens, one who defrays the cost of a performance.
  4. Generally, one who supplies financial backing for any endeavour.

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Φιλόξενός τις Μακεδὼν Καρίας σατραπεύων δεηθεὶς χρημάτων Διονύσια ἔφασκε μέλλειν ἄγειν, καὶ χοραγοὺς προέγραψε τῶν Καρῶν τοὺς εὐπορωτάτους καὶ προσέταττεν αὐτοῖς ἃ δεῖ παρασκευάζειν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 110:1)
  • ἁγεῖται δ ἁ Λήδας παῖς ἁγνὰ χοραγὸς εὐπρεπής. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, lyric3)
  • Φοίνισσα Σιδωνιὰς ὦ ταχεῖα κώπα, ῥοθίοισι μάτηρ εἰρεσίας φίλα, χοραγὲ τῶν καλλιχόρων δελφίνων, ὅταν αὔραις πέλαγος ἀνήνεμον ᾖ, γλαυκὰ δὲ Πόντου θυγάτηρ Γαλάνεια τάδ εἴπῃ: (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 11)
  • ὁ δ ἐκ μακρᾶς καὶ δυεῖν βραχειῶν μέσην μὲν λαβὼν τὴν μακρὰν ἀμφίβραχυς ὠνόμασται, καὶ οὐ σφόδρα τῶν εὐσχήμων ἐστὶ ῥυθμῶν ἀλλὰ διακέκλασταί τε καὶ πολὺ τὸ θῆλυ καὶ ἀηδὲς ἔχει, οἱά῀ ἐστι ταυτί Ιἄκχε θρίαμβε, σὺ τῶνδε χοραγέ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1722)
  • "ὦ χοραγέ, ἐξεῦρες πῶς καὶ αὕτη ἡ χώρα ἄτιμος οὖσα ἔντιμος γένηται. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 11)
  • Δαμομένης ὁ χοραγός, ὁ τὸν τρίποδ ὦ Διόνυσε, καὶ σὲ τὸν ἅδιστον θεῶν μακάρων ἀναθείς, μέτριος ἦν ἐν πᾶσι, χορῷ δ ἐκτήσατο νίκαν ἀνδρῶν, καὶ τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ προσῆκον ὁρῶν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3391)

Synonyms

  1. Generally

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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