Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Chorea

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CHORE'A (χορεία). A choral dance; i. e. in which the performers join hand in hand, so as to form a circle and dance to the sound of their own voices, precisely as represented in the illustration (Chorea/1.1), from a painting in the baths of Titus at Rome. Virg. Cul. 19. Ovid. Met. viii. 581. Claud. B. Gild. 448.

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  Chorea/1.1