Crossword-Solution: CHOREGUS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHOREGUS | anagram | GROUCHES |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CHOREGUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| GREEK chorus leader, ancient | 2 answers |
| chorus leader | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with CHOREGUS (5)
Therefore go and sacrifice the sheep in the house, cut off the legs and bring them here; thus the carcase will be saved for the choregus.
This was one of the [Greek: _leitourgiai_], or burdensome offices, to which men of property were liable at Athens, of which we shall see more in other parts of our author.] of his tribe, who the gymnastic [Footnote: The gymnasiarch, like the choregus, had a burden imposed on him by his tribe, to make certain provisions for the gymnasium, public place or school of exercise.
One, though serving as choregus and trierarch,[n] felt it his duty voluntarily to incur that further expense [to ransom the prisoners] rather than see any of his fellow citizens suffering misfortune for want of means; the other, so far from rescuing any of those who were already in captivity, joined in bringing a whole district, and more than 10,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry with them, the forces of the actual allies of his country, into captivity to Philip.
The getting together of the chorus was a public service, or liturgia, and in the early days of Grecian prosperity was provided by the choregus.
His first covering the stage with purple skins reminds us of the Megarian choregus, who used real purple.