Crossword-Solution: CHOROS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Most splendid of them all, the Stoa Poekile, a cloister or portico with painted walls, to which the spoils of the Persian war had been devoted, ranged its pillars of white marble on one side of the central space: on the other, connecting those high memories with the task of the living, lay the Choros, where, at the Gymnopaedia, the Spartan youth danced in honour of Apollo.

Thus, although dancing was by no means excluded from the church in early times--its trace still remains in the name choir [Greek: choros] for that part of the church where the dancing was performed[19]--its most characteristic element, accent, came to be banished from the music of the church as something foreign to the character of religious worship.

Iam Cytherea choros ducit Venus imminente luna, 5 Iunctaeque Nymphis Gratiae decentes Alterno terram quatiunt pede, dum gravis Cyclopum Volcanus ardens urit officinas.

Romae principis urbium Dignatur suboles inter amabilis Vatum ponere me choros, 15 Et iam dente minus mordeor invido.

Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis Arboribusque comae; Mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas Flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet 5 Ducere nuda choros.